Greg Abbott, Texas’ attorney general and a candidate for the GOP nomination for governor, defended his decision to campaign with Ted Nugent, whom Abbott described as a “fighter for freedom,” a month after the pro-gun rock musician called President Barack Obama a “communist-nurtured subhuman mongrel.”
Richard Graffanino, 39, a New Jersey teacher with a second career as an actor, lost his day job after an arbitrator concluded that he showed middle-school students a film clip of himself in bed with an actress.
George W. Bush, the former president, said at a gathering at his institute in Dallas that efforts must be made to end the stigma attached to post-traumatic stress disorder, which can hinder military veterans’ transition into civilian life and employment.
Dara Taylor of Elyria, Ohio, who found a gray kitten frozen to the road in northeast Ohio and rescued it, said she initially thought it was a chunk of ice and was shocked when it tried to move.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, can answer hundreds of written questions from lawyers preparing to defend Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law at a New York City terrorism trial next month, a judge said.
President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil said her country’s armed forces could be called on to contain any violent protests during the coming World Cup.
Eugene Dunn, 54, was arrested by police in Baton Rouge, accused of shoplifting nearly $100 worth of ribs from a Piggly Wiggly.
Sara Ylen, 38, was sentenced in Michigan to a year behind bars for tricking an insurance company and swindling people in small communities who believed she was dying of cancer.
Tina Keller, 25, and 23-year-old Drayke Jacobs-Van-Tol of Taylor, Pa., were cited for contempt of court for submitting a jury questionnaire filled with crude language and racial slurs.
Mel Reynolds, 62, a former Democratic congressman from Illinois, pleaded innocent in a Zimbabwe court to charges of possessing pornography.
Joaquin Mendez-Hernandez, 35, a Mexican convicted of acting as a pimp for women forced into prostitution, was sentenced to life in prison for his role in what U.S. prosecutors called a sex-trafficking ring that traded women like slaves between Georgia, Florida and the Carolinas.
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