Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, the president of Turkmenistan, said his government will begin charging citizens for gas in an effort to encourage people to consume energy more efficiently in the Central Asian nation, where gas, electricity and water have been free since 1993.
Ron Martin is claiming Frisco, Texas, police violated his free-speech rights when they arrested him for holding a sign that read “Police Ahead” while standing in the median of a busy avenue, arguing that an ordinance saying sign holders must be on private property doesn’t apply to him because the law regulates business signs.
Melanie Gotz, a University of Alabama sorority member who spoke out against segregation among Greek organizations on campus, was honored at a banquet celebrating the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Valerie Trierweiler, France’s first lady, ended a more than week-long stay at a hospital where she went to rest after a magazine reported President Francois Hollande was having an affair with an actress.
Juegers Veloz, 37, a Dominican national on the U.S. Secret Service’s most-wanted list, was arrested by Spanish police as a suspect in a multimillion-dollar cellphone fraud involving stolen phone-account data used to make fraudulent calls.
Abigail Miller, 23, of Dayton, Ohio, was reunited with her lost dog and said she hopes to give the man who found Zoro some food from the sandwich shop where she works, because the man turned down her original reward of a case of beer and a pack of cigarettes.
Alfredo Bahena-Benitez, 34, a Connecticut pool company worker, was arrested on reckless-endangerment charges after being accused of causing several accidents by draining a swimming pool onto a road in freezing temperatures.
Kristian Vigenin, Bulgaria’s foreign minister, said negative comments from British politicians about a possible increase in immigration from his country and Romania were “ungrounded,” saying they “should understand that not everybody is ready to leave the country to go to another country.”
Kenneth Shelton, a 52-year-old truck driver, was charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to sell after Memphis police reported finding 405 pounds of marijuana hidden in crates of rotten limes being unloaded from his tractor-trailer.
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