Eric Holder, the U.S. attorney general, told law school graduates of the University of California at Berkeley that lawmakers and others who argue that civilian courts are incapable of handling terrorism cases “are simply wrong,” adding that federal courts have shown a “robust ability to stop terrorists and collect intelligence.”
Deputy Matt Campoy of the Sacramento County, Calif., sheriff’s office arrested cigarette smoker Etta Mae Lopez, 31, on a misdemeanor charge after she reportedly walked up to him outside the jail and slapped him in the face because she knew that hitting an officer would send her to jail “long enough to quit her smoking habit,” Campoy said.
Imam Baba Leigh, a Muslim cleric, has been released from a jail where he was held for five months after he described nine executions carried out by the Gambian government as “un-Islamic.”
Deborah Tagle, a Texas mother, is charged with injury to a child over accusations that she put off for hours seeking hospital treatment for her 14-yearold son, who had been accidentally shot in the upper thigh, while she researched treatment options on the WebMD website.
Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister of Italy, drew thousands of supporters at a rally to protest his conviction for tax fraud and told the crowd: “If someone is trying to intimidate me, they will be disappointed and are badly mistaken. They don’t know me, and they don’t know you.”
Martha Spence and her husband, who built a 13-foot catwalk from a window to a tree to allow their two cats to go outside from their second-floor Colorado apartment, will remove it at the request of their homeowners association.
Thomas Williams, a prominent American priest of the Legion of Christ religious order, has decided to leave the priesthood after admitting that he fathered a child years ago and because he wants to care for his son and the mother, said his friend the Rev. John Connor.
Arthur Gonzales, 43, an FBI agent who told police in Virginia that he fatally shot his estranged wife after she attacked him with a knife, has been charged with second-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony in her death.
Rikki Wills, the roommate of a Florida A&M University drum major who died in a hazing ritual in 2011, has pleaded no contest to hazing charges.
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