Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan, who is seeking re-election, called consideration of a presidential candidacy “a distraction,” but the Republican said that he hoped he was “a reasonable model for people to look at across the country.”
Anthony Castro, the son of Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro, said he hopes his father’s life and death will lead to changes in handling sexual predators and wrote in a Plain Dealer column that “justice truly will have been served” if his father’s horrific acts can prevent similar crimes.
Ali Zidan, the prime minister of Libya, said that conditions on the ground are not favorable for a successful probe into attacks that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans last year in the eastern city of Benghazi.
Princess Beatrix, 75, the former Dutch queen who stepped down after 33 years on the throne earlier this year, has undergone surgery after falling and breaking a cheekbone and will remain hospitalized for a few days.
Tom Francis, spokesman for the Jacksonville, Fla., Fire and Rescue Department, said rescue crews used peanut oil to free a 45-year-old worker at a Florida asphalt plant whose lower legs were stuck in a tank of tar.
Shawn Weaver, police chief of Bellefonte, Pa., said the latest tip about the location of a missing prosecutor connected to the Penn State child sex-abuse case was unfounded after an FBI search of a spot where Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar was purportedly buried came up empty.
Debra Gottlieb, director of the U.S. Virgin Islands budget office, urged Washington to reconsider a new rate used in calculating the Caribbean territory’s anticipated revenue from rum taxes, saying the lower rate will result in “severe financial hardship” locally.
Matias Moreno-Boza, 25, of Perth Amboy, N.J., was arrested and charged with four counts of grand larceny after police said he stole billfolds, purses, a necklace and an iPad while making his way through New York restaurants, bars and hotels in a silver-wheeled wheelchair.
Joey Prusak, a 19-yearold Dairy Queen store manager in Minneapolis, has received job offers and even a call from billionaire Warren Buffett, whose company owns the chain, after he refused to serve a customer who pocketed $20 that a visually impaired customer dropped, and when she wouldn’t return the cash, gave the victim $20 out of his own pocket.
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