Nadya Suleman, 38, who has 14 children and is sometimes referred to as “Octomom,” pleaded innocent in Los Angeles to welfare fraud, accused of failing to reveal all of her earnings, and is to return to court next month if her case isn’t resolved before then.
J.B. Van Hollen, Wisconsin’s attorney general, was urged in a video by members of a punk band who had been jailed over their protests in Russia to dismiss cases against protesters arrested last summer for singing in the Capitol building.
Lee Palmer, the head of a Portland, Ore., household who called 911 after the family’s 22-pound house cat Lux attacked a 7-month-old child before trapping the family in a bedroom, said the family is not giving up on the 4-yearold part-Himalayan cat and that it is getting medical attention and therapy.
Kese Smith, a Houston police spokesman, said $200,000 in cash and $400,000 in checks were stolen from a safe at Joel Osteen’s megachurch, which has one of the largest congregations in the country.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel expressed sorrow over the fatal shooting of Jordanian judge Raed Zueter at a border crossing and announced a joint investigation of the death.
President Bronislaw Komorowski of Poland said he would like more U.S. troops in the country to guarantee its security within NATO, which Poland joined 15 years ago this week.
King Juan Carlos of Spain and Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy joined families of victims of the Madrid train bombings for a 10th anniversary Mass in memory of one of Europe’s deadliest terrorist attacks, which killed 191 people and injured nearly 2,000.
Michelle Bachelet was sworn in as president of Chile, three months after winning a landslide election victory on pledges to provide free education for all, and returns to an office she held from 2006 to 2010.
Sgt. Brian Weir of the Beverly Hills, Calif., police has sued the city, claiming he faced retaliation after reporting that a detective made inappropriate remarks about singer Whitney Houston’s body at her death scene two years ago.
Nicholas Savino, 42, of Clarks Summit, Pa., will be sentenced June 11 after pleading guilty to posting a threat on the White House website that said, “President Obama the Anti-Christ. As a result of breaking the constitution you will stand down or be shot dead.”
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