Ana Trujillo, 45, of Houston was convicted of murder for fatally stabbing her boyfriend, 59-year-old Alf Stefan Andersson, with the 5½-inch stiletto heel of her shoe, hitting him at least 25 times in the face during an argument at his Houston condominium in June.
Hillary Rodham Clinton said in a question-and-answer session after a speech in San Francisco that she’s contemplating a 2016 White House campaign but added she was “not going to make a decision for a while because I’m actually enjoying my life. I’m actually having fun doing ordinary things like seeing my friends and going on long walks and playing with our dogs.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the 87-year-old Colombian author and Nobel laureate, left the Mexico hospital where he was treated for eight days for pneumonia and related problems.
Marissa Devault was convicted in Phoenix of first-degree murder for bludgeoning her husband, Dale Harrell, to death with a hammer in 2009 in what prosecutors said was a failed bid to collect on a life-insurance policy to repay about $300,000 to her boyfriend.
Kevin Sutherland, a Florida pastor who dabbles in art dealing, was convicted in Manhattan regarding his attempt to sell five fake Damien Hirst paintings to an undercover police officer. President Barack Obama plans to survey damage from the Washington state mudslide later this month and will meet with victims, first responders and recovery workers, the White House said.
Pamela Phillips, 56, a once-prominent socialite, was found guilty in the 1996 Tucson, Ariz., car-bomb killing of her ex-husband, Gary Triano, after spending years abroad enjoying a lavish lifestyle across Europe.
Gaston Glock, the founder of Austrian firearms-maker Glock, paid the equivalent of about $15.15 million for a prize-winning stallion, London, a 12-year old show-jumper.
Leland Yee, a suspended Democratic state senator in California, pleaded innocent to bribery and gun charges two weeks after he was arrested as part of an FBI sting targeting political corruption and a purported organized-crime syndicate based in San Francisco.
John Ray, the attorney for Bernice Youngblood and her family, said the 85-year old nursing home patient was the victim of “disgraceful sexual perversion” when a male stripper gyrated in front of her against her will at the suburban New York facility in September 2012.
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