President Francois Hollande of France said he was considering legal action against the tabloid Closer, which published an account of his purported affair with Julie Gayet, a 41-year-old comic actress who campaigned on his behalf before the 2012 presidential election.
Craig Moreau, an off-duty Houston firefighter, made the best of his resources to put out an 18-wheeler tire fire, using beer the rig was hauling to extinguish the blaze.
Bill de Blasio, the new mayor of New York, prompted a foodie firestorm by eating a smoked-mozzarella-and-sausage pie with a knife and fork during a stop at Goodfellas, a Staten Island pizzeria, and defended himself to reporters later by pointing out that in his ancestral homeland of Italy,“it’s more typical to eat with a fork and knife.”
Lee Ammerman, 51, of Altoona, Pa., was mailed a summons requiring him to surrender Feb. 5 on charges of theft and receiving stolen property, accused of stealing 12 bottles of hand sanitizer from a central Pennsylvania hospital so he could mix it with orange juice and drink it for the alcohol it contained.
Joyce Hardin Garrard, 48, an Alabama woman jailed for nearly two years while awaiting trial on charges she killed her 9-year-old granddaughter by making the child run until she collapsed and died, was denied bail as a judge set a June 23 trial date.
Timothy Olschafskie, 20, was arraigned in Enfield, Conn., on animal-cruelty charges, accused of severely abusing and killing seven cats belonging to his fiancee’s family, which has been rescuing cats for more than a decade.
Steven Kaplan, president of the University of New Haven in Connecticut, said more than 400 people have contributed nearly $23,000 to a charitable fund for a homeless woman who alerted authorities to the presence of a man with a gun on campus last month.
Joseph Reel of Kettering, Ohio, was sentenced to nearly three years in prison for crashing his unoccupied Jeep near a White House Secret Service guard booth in October.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said at a conservative conference in Austin that President Barack Obama’s positions are “dangerous and terrifying,” citing exemptions to provisions of the health-care law, the president’s immigration policies and the decision to allow Colorado and other states to experiment with legalizing marijuana.
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