Ana Trujillo, 45, of Houston was sentenced to life in prison for fatally stabbing her boyfriend, 59-year-old Alf Stefan Andersson, with a 5½-inch stiletto heel, striking him at least 25 times in the face and head last June at his Houston condominium.
Melvin Morse, 60, a former pediatrician known for research on paranormal science and near-death experiences involving children, was sentenced in Delaware to three years in prison for waterboarding the daughter of his longtime companion by holding the girl’s head under a faucet.
John Rowland, 56, a Republican former Connecticut governor who served 10 months in prison in a corruption scandal that led to his resignation a decade ago, pleaded innocent to conspiracy and other federal charges in a purported pursuit of secret consulting roles with two congressional campaigns.
Alan Gross, 64, an American imprisoned in Cuba for more than four years after illegally working to set up Internet access on the island, suspended his hunger strike after more than a week of fasting that he said was in protest of his treatment by the U.S. and Cuba.
Alison Michelle Ernst, 36, a Phoenix woman accused of throwing a shoe at Hillary Rodham Clinton during a Las Vegas speech, was freed after being given a misdemeanor disorderly conduct summons.
U.S. Rep. Tom Petri, 73, announced that he will not seek re-election, ending a 35-year career as a moderate Republican from east-central Wisconsin and choosing to step down rather than face a primary election against at least one conservative state lawmaker.
William Burns, the second-highest-ranking American diplomat, is retiring this fall after a 32-year career in the Foreign Service that included stints as U.S. ambassador to Russia and Jordan, top Middle East hand and leader of a team that held secret talks with Iran.
God Gazarov, 26, a Brooklyn, N.Y., man and Russian native who is named after his grandfather, sued the credit-reporting agency Equifax and claims the company falsely reported he had no financial history because his first name is God.
Joseph Weston Le Page, an Athens, Ga., middle school teacher facing drug charges, said in an online note to co-workers addressing his arrest that he was growing marijuana in his home for medicinal purposes for back pain, according to the Athens Banner-Herald.
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