Correction: The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil-rights activist, is not an attorney. His vocation was incorrectly described in items in this "In the news" feature.
Ray Lambrecht, a 95-year-old retired car dealer from Pierce, Neb., auctioned off more than 500 barely driven vintage Chevrolet cars and pickups, which he had stashed around town from the 1950s through the 1990s, fetching $545,000 collectively for six of the rarest models.
Rick Santorum, a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, said in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in suburban St. Louis that his fellow Republicans need to do a better job of caring, relating and communicating if they hope to win national elections.
Megan Young, the 23-year-old Miss Philippines, took the Miss World crown amid tightened security at the event on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, where the contest was moved from Jakarta after hard-line Muslim groups protested.
Jesse Jackson, the U.S. civil-rights attorney and minister, arrived in Cuba at the invitation of Colombia’s largest guerrilla military to mediate the release of American Kevin Scott, who was captured in June by the rebels while walking through the Colombian jungle.
Raymond Sean Brown, a 44-year-old doctor from Cleveland, is facing fraud charges after federal prosecutors accused him of getting $7.5 million in Medicare reimbursements for more than 17,000 Botox injections he purportedly never gave.
Mark Whitted, a 42-year-old Louisiana man serving a life sentence for second-degree murder, has filed a federal lawsuit in an effort to receive large-print documents and access to a high-powered magnifier so he can read newspapers, magazines and other materials.
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