In the news

Saturday, March 8, 2014

Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland said Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, called him and apologized for refusing to let Cummings, the committee’s top Democrat, speak during an IRS hearing, and added that he accepted the apology.

Hillary Rodham Clinton said at the U.N. commemoration of International Women’s Day that achieving equality for women and girls is “the great unfinished business of the 21st century.”

Michael Earl Wright, 53, of St. Louis County, Mo., was charged with misdemeanor assault, accused of choking an H&R Block worker after apparently becoming enraged about his tax situation.

Emma Duvoll, 75, of New York City’s Bronx borough won $2 million in a recent Powerball drawing after playing the numbers found in her fortune cookie.

The Rev. John Koletas, the pastor of an upstate New York Baptist church, plans to raffle off a Smith & Wesson M&P semi-automatic rifle during a March service.

Daniel Dudzisz, 26, an insulin-dependent diabetic German tourist who was lost for more than two weeks in the Australian outback, survived by eating flies, police said.

Deval Patrick, the Democratic governor of Massachusetts, signed a bill updating the state’s voyeurism laws, just two days after the state’s highest court ruled that a man who took cellphone photos up the skirts of female subway passengers in Boston wasn’t violating the law as written.

Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael McClendon, who had been accused of secretly photographing and videotaping at least a dozen women at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, has pleaded guilty in a court-martial and is receiving a 33-month sentence and a bad-conduct discharge, officials said.

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