Sean Reyes, Utah’s attorney general, said local clerks in the state can finish paperwork on same-sex marriages that occurred before the U.S. Supreme Court issued a temporary halt to them this week but said his legal advice does not constitute a decision on whether the marriages are valid.
Gabrielle Giffords, 43, who gave up her Arizona seat in Congress after she was shot in the head three years ago, left the door open during an NBC’s Today interview on returning to public office, saying, “A little bit later,” and “maybe.”
Andrew Hamblin, a Tennessee preacher who used poisonous snakes in his religious practices, won’t face a criminal charge of possessing wildlife inherently dangerous to humans but also won’t get back the 53 serpents that wildlife officials seized from his Tabernacle Church of God.
Rob Ford, the Toronto mayor who has rebuffed pressure to resign over his admitted drug use, challenged Canada’s federal government to decriminalize marijuana when asked about the issue on a Washington, D.C.-based radio show.
Tim Rutledge, 53, an Orlando truck driver who crawled under his rig to fix its frozen brakes and was trapped for hours in subzero temperatures in Indiana after the trailer settled deeper in the snow, is out of the hospital and heading home to Florida.
Chung Kim, 76, of Dallas was found guilty of capital murder and faces a life sentence for shooting two neighbors, Michelle Jackson and boyfriend Jamie Stafford, in February in a dispute over dog waste.
Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala, 47, a French comic convicted more than a half-dozen times for inciting racial hatred in shows in which he derides the Holocaust, was banned from performing just hours after a court in Nantes said he could go ahead with his show.
Jeremy Stone, 39, and his sister, Keri Stone, 34, were indicted by federal prosecutors in Utah on charges of illegally importing a rare boa constrictor from Brazil.
Fidel Castro, 87, who led Cuba for 48 years before falling ill in 2006 and handing over power to his brother Raul, made his first public appearance in nine months, attending the opening of an art studio in Havana.
Shezanne Cassim, 29, returned to Minnesota after spending nine months in prison in the United Arab Emirates for his role in making and posting online a satirical video about youth culture in Dubai.
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