Lance Deleon, a police officer in the south Texas city of Boerne, has been put on administrative leave after being charged in the shooting of an arrow into Bobby, a neighbor’s 2-year-old male cat who was treated for a punctured lung and broken front right leg but is expected to recover.
Princess Cristina, 47, the daughter of Spanish King Juan Carlos, has been placed under investigation for tax fraud and money laundering in connection with a corruption case involving her husband, Inaki Urdangarin, who is accused of embezzling the equivalent of millions of dollars in public money through a charity.
Lil’ Flip, a platinum-selling Houston rapper whose real name is Wesley Eric Weston, has been indicted on a charge of possession of a controlled substance over a 2012 Texas traffic stop in which authorities said he was found with codeine.
Mimi Michelle McKenzie, the daughter of late Marine Sgt. James Joseph McKenzie, is seeking to reclaim his World War II medals, including a Purple Heart and Silver Star, after the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported they had been found in a Goodwill store outside St. Louis.
Paula Broadwell, the biographer whose extramarital affair with then-CIA Director David Petraeus triggered his resignation, told WSOC-TV in Charlotte, N.C., that she regrets the relationship and the harm and grief it caused her family.
Rob Ford, the mayor of Toronto, denied at a news conference that he smokes crack cocaine and said he is not an addict after a video that has not been released publicly purported to show him using the drug.
Claude Alexander Allen III, the 20-year-old son of Claude A. Allen, a former aide to President George W. Bush, was charged with first-degree murder in Gaithersburg, Md., on accusations that he killed a man with a hatchet.
Everardo Garfias, a Mississippi man who was attacked last July by a swarm of yellow jackets, jumped off his riding Husqvarna lawnmower and was run over by the machine, severing his kneecap, sued the manufacturers of the mower and its engine, claiming a cutoff switch should have disengaged the engine when he jumped.
Nicolas Maduro, the late Hugo Chavez’s successor as Venezuelan president, has ordered the creation of a new workers’ militia to defend the country’s “Bolivarian revolution” at a time when the government faces economic problems and political turmoil.
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