George H.W. Bush, the former president, donated a bright pair of cactus-themed socks to a church fundraising auction in Portland, Maine, along with a letter of authenticity in which he said, “I absolutely love a crazy pair of socks” but that his wife, Barbara, “has had enough” of them.
Kaliq Douglas, the biker accused of being among a group that chased a sport utility vehicle during a motorcycle rally in New York City, pleaded innocent to assault charges in an attack on the SUV’s driver.
Cara Tabachnick, whose family owns a Brooklyn building featuring two geishas and a bonsai tree spray-painted by the elusive British graffiti artist Banksy, hired security guards and installed a metal gate to protect the artwork “so it can be viewed and enjoyed.”
Leslie Duane, 55, of West Haven, Conn., pleaded innocent to assault and battery charges stemming from accusations that she was severely intoxicated at her daughter’s wedding reception and slapped her daughter as the younger woman tried to escort Duane out.
Bob Wiser, 70, who is running unopposed for a second term as mayor of Port Matilda, Pa., is asking voters to write in an alternative candidate because he recently decided he’d rather leave the post, but he missed the deadline for taking his name off the ballot.
Miguel Angel Iniguez, 41, a supervisor for Servisair, became the second employee jailed in the planting of dry-ice bombs at Los Angeles International Airport along with 28-year-old Dicarlo Bennett.
Richard William Koester, 36, survived six nights inside the wreckage of a truck that went off a highway and crashed into a ravine in rural Colorado in near-freezing temperatures before he and the deceased driver were found by a highway worker.
Dick Cheney, the former vice president who has a history of heart trouble, revealed that when he had a defibrillator near his heart replaced in 2007, he and his doctor decided to turn off the device’s wireless function in case a terrorist tried to send his heart a fatal shock, a scenario that he saw depicted years later in the TV series Homeland.
Christopher Chiappetta, 26, a substitute teacher at a Pittsburgh-area high school, faces drug charges after officers said they found four small plastic bags of heroin in Chiappetta’s pocket and marijuana in his car after he passed out in front of 11 students.
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