Rick Santorum, a former GOP presidential candidate and U.S. senator, was named chief executive officer of EchoLight Studios, a Dallas-based Christian film production company that Santorum believes has the opportunity to transform the movie industry by tapping into the demand for high-quality films with a focus on “inspirational and uplifting” Christian messages.
Fat Joe, 42, a platinum-selling rapper whose real name is Joseph Cartagena, was sentenced in New Jersey to four months in prison after admitting he failed to pay taxes on more than $1 million of income in 2007 and in 2008.
Raj Rajaratnam, 56, the founder of the Galleon group of 14 hedge funds, saw his insider-trading conviction upheld by a Manhattan federal appeals court that concluded that the government did not cheat to obtain permission to make its most extensive use of wiretaps ever in such a case.
Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin, both Russian space station astronauts, took care of a little outside maintenance as they replaced a main valve on the International Space Station and prepared for the arrival of a new lab later this year.
Gary Samore, the former top White House official on counter proliferation, said at a forum in Washington that diplomacy is unlikely to get North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons and that the best to hope for is a verifiable freeze in its production of fissile material.
David Cameron, the United Kingdom’s prime minister, called for an immediate investigation into allegations published in The Guardian newspaper that an undercover police officer was ordered to smear the reputation of the family of a murdered black teenager, Stephen Lawrence.
Zaid al-Hilli, the brother of a British-Iraqi man shot to death with three other people last year in the French Alps, was arrested on the outskirts of London on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after investigators gathered evidence that the siblings were fighting over their father’s inheritance.
Francisco Enrique Lopez, 34, was charged with five counts of child abandonment on allegations he left his five young children in a car while he drank inside a Dallas bar.
Darren Walp, 33, of Ridley Park, Pa., was arrested in the crowd during a Toby Keith concert in Camden, N.J., on allegations he climbed a fence into a nearby housing complex, waved a Confederate flag and shouted racial slurs at residents.
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