LITTLE ROCK — Mohammad Khazaee, Iran’s envoy to the United Nations, doesn’t count himself among the fans of Argo, Ben Affleck’s Academy Award-winning film about the rescue of American hostages from Iran more than 30 years ago, describing it in an interview as “a weak movie” and “insulting” to Iranians.
Luke Ravenstahl, who at 26 became Pittsburgh’s youngest mayor ever, abruptly dropped his bid for re-election amid a federal investigation of the city’s Police Department and the forced resignation of the police chief, with the now 33-year-old Democratic mayor citing the “grueling demands” of the job and the “many nasty and vicious allegations” against him.
President Barack Obama
and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who plan to meet in June at the Group of 8 Summit in Northern Ireland, had a “constructive conversation” by phone on issues that included containing Iran’s nuclear program and dealing with the violence in Syria, the White House said.
Queen Elizabeth II, 86, was recovering at Windsor Castle after contracting a stomach bug that forced the cancellation of a royal engagement in Wales.
Eder Loor, 29, was promoted to detective in the New York City Police Department nearly a year after he was stabbed in the head during a confrontation in East Harlem, and his wife, Dina, said he still struggles with memory loss and speech problems, and continues to receive “intensive physical therapy.”
Arthur Porter, a 42-year-old New Orleans man, was convicted of battery for pouring boiling grits on his wife, then hitting her in the head with the pot in 2011.
Don Gustavson, a Republican state senator in Nevada, introduced a bill that paves the way for his state to increase the maximum speed limit to 85 mph in some areas.
Joseph Milton Rowland, 35, was arrested in Mission Bend, Texas, after police busted marijuana growing operations in two houses, and seized 234 plants as well as indoor lighting, scales, water pumps and packaging equipment.
Matthew Matagrano, 36, a Yonkers, N.Y., resident whose rap sheet includes a conviction for sodomy and sexual abuse, was arraigned in Manhattan on charges that he impersonated a Department of Correction investigator to get into city lockups where he mingled with inmates for hours.
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