Simone Gbagbo will not be extradicted to join her husband, former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, at the International Criminal Court, where both have been indicted on charges of crimes against humanity, and instead will be prosecuted “in Ivory Coast by Ivorian courts,” the government said.
Eric Dahl, a University of Wisconsin student who ranks third in the world of competitive eating, said the $18,000 in prize money and merchandise he has earned since 2011 has helped him get through school, adding, “I’m eating for my education.”
Mariano Barbosa Jr., 30, a security officer at two Manhattan hotels, was arrested and charged in the setting of eight fires at the hotels in four years in what fire officials said was an attempt to make them less popular and his job easier.
Omar Abul-Magd, an Egyptian farmer, was arrested after putting military Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s name and an army-style cap on his donkey and riding the animal through a town in southern Egypt.
Andrew Maberry, 19, of O’Fallon, Ill., has been indicted on a felony count of bank robbery on suspicion that he is the “I-55 Bandit,” believed to be responsible for 10 robberies and two robbery attempts since May at banks in Illinois, Missouri, Maryland, West Virginia and Tennessee.
Stephen Hawking, the 71-year-old world-renowned physicist and best-selling author who at age 21 was diagnosed with a motor-neuron disease that left him wheelchair-bound and virtually unable to move, said he is always able-bodied in his dreams.
Adrian Lee, chief constable in Northamptonshire, England, proposed privately run holding facilities instead of jails for people who are intoxicated in public, saying the taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay for the care of someone “who has chosen to go out and get so drunk that they cannot look after themselves.”
Duewa Lee, 37, a Northern California woman who burned, whipped and brutalized her fiance’s 12-yearold daughter while he was in prison, was convicted of torture and sentenced to life behind bars.
Donald Martin, 80, of Rochester Township, Pa., faces assault and other charges on allegations that he used his lawn tractor to pull a bush out of the ground in a property-line dispute, then ran over bare ground to fling rocks and debris at his neighbors and a responding police officer.
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