Jake Davidson, a Southern California teen who made a popular YouTube video asking Sports Illustrated model Kate Upton to his high school prom, showed up with 21-year-old Danish model Nina Agdal after Upton’s work schedule prevented her from going.
Gail Pittman-McDaniel, a School Board member in Tangipahoa Parish, La., wants the board to reconsider a ban on corporal punishment, saying parents, teachers and principals have asked her why schools no longer allow spanking.
Ali Salim, an ex-emergency room doctor in Ohio, was indicted on allegations he raped a 23-year-old woman who was nine months pregnant, killed her by injecting her with heroin and abused her corpse.
King Abdullah II of Jordan, who is attending a two-day meeting of the Geneva-based World Economic Forum on the shores of the Dead Sea, said extremism has “grown fat” off the long-standing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, adding, “Good-faith talks must get going.”
Jimmy Tebeau, a Missouri man who founded the Grateful Dead tribute band the Schwag, said the band is taking a “forced sabbatical” during his 30-month prison sentence stemming from a 2010 raid at a concert on land he owned, where prosecutors said police found up to 200 drug dealers.
Hallie Carr, a 13-year-old resident of Moore, Okla., has been standing on a corner with a white sign that reads: “Need a hug? I am here!” after a tornado hit the town, saying it makes her feel good to spread a little cheer.
Gerald Adler, a retired 81-year-old Air Force navigator from California, traveled to Elephant Mountain, Maine, to reunite with 83-year-old Eugene Slabinski, who rescued Adler 50 years ago from a B-52 bomber crash that killed seven crew members.
Armando Villalobos, an ex-prosecutor in Cameron County, Texas, and one-time candidate for Congress, was convicted of accepting bribes in exchange for court favors, including $80,000 in a scheme that allowed a convicted murderer to escape.
Miguel Sanchez, a 59-year-old California man wanted since 2000 on attempted murder charges in Los Angeles, was captured in Colorado Springs, Colo., after someone reported he was urinating on a wall outside a KFC restaurant, according to police Lt. Dan Lofgren, who added, “On the run for 13 years, and then they get caught for being stupid.”
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