Edward Davis, the 57-year-old Boston police commissioner and a key figure in the investigation of the Boston Marathon bombing, announced he would soon step down from his post after seven years on the job.
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the 56-year-old California man behind an anti-Islam film that led to violence in parts of the Middle East last year, is due to be freed from federal custody in a separate case regarding the use of false names.
Keal Pontin, the owner of a 250-acre farm on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, said that 23 purebred goats worth $10,000 were stolen from his property on a moonlit night, with duct tape put over their mouths to keep them quiet, and vowed to get them back.
Justine Greening, Britain’s international development secretary, announced that the nation was giving $1.6 billion to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in the next three years, saying she hopes the money will lead to “some incredible results.”
Alan Gilbert rewrote the stars for his girlfriend, 22-year-old Krystal Sanderson, when he arranged to have the Museum of Arts & Sciences in Macon, Ga., display his marriage proposal to Sanderson on its planetarium screen after a 30-minute show about prehistoric sea creatures.
Veronica Beyer, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Transportation, said that a shack outside Marfa, Texas, designed by two artists eight years ago to resemble a Prada storefront is an illegal roadside advertisement and that officials are weighing what to do with it.
Prabjhot Singh, a 31-yearold Columbia University professor who is Sikh, said he was overwhelmed by the support he has received since being attacked by a group of young men who fractured his lower jaw and called him “Osama” and a “terrorist.”
NoViolet Bulawayo, a 31-year-old Zimbabwean author, became the first black African woman to be a finalist for the British literary Booker Prize for her novel We Need New Names about an African teenager living inDetroit.
Matt and Melanie Capobianco of South Carolina were given custody as adoptive parents of 4-yearold Veronica, a Cherokee girl at the center of a years-long guardianship battle, after the Oklahoma Supreme Court said it didn’t have jurisdiction over the child.
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