Hillary Rodham Clinton addressed the Association of American Publishers in New York and described her study at home as an episode of Hoarders, with book notes and chapter drafts for her memoir piled all over.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California joined her state’s governor and fellow Democrat, Jerry Brown, in expressing skepticism about legalizing marijuana in their state for recreational purposes and said that one of her concerns is the potential for pot-impaired driving.
Marion Barry, 78, the ex-District of Columbia mayor who was videotaped smoking crack cocaine in 1990 and is now a councilman, said current Mayor Vincent Gray should be re-elected, and he brushed off concerns about a federal investigation of Gray’s 2010 campaign, saying, “I know about how U.S. attorneys work.”
Thomas Rica, 43, the former public-works inspector for the northern New Jersey town of Ridgewood, admitted stealing $460,000 in quarters as he pleaded guilty to four counts of theft, and faces five years of probation and paying about $200,000 in restitution.
Michael Smith, a Norridgewock, Maine, man whose handgun tattoo on his stomach looks, when he’s shirtless, like a gun tucked into his waistband, drew armed police to his home after he yelled at a tree-removal crew that woke him too early one morning.
Chad Scott Miller, 40, a Longview, Wash., man was sentenced to 14 days in jail for trying to kill his pit bull named Nero with a sledgehammer after he hit the dog for eating doughnuts and it bit him.
Joe Carr, a Tennessee state representative and Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, ejected college students from his legislative committee session when the students broke into a civil-rights song after a voter-ID bill they supported was punted by the panel.
Elvira Arellano, 38, a Mexican alien-rights advocate who gained international attention when she took refuge in a Chicago church before being deported in 2007, has asked for asylum in the United States on humanitarian grounds.
Kieran McCarthy, a London antique dealer, said a scrap dealer who found one of eight missing Faberge imperial eggs at a flea market in the U.S. Midwest bought it for about $14,000 and contacted McCarthy, who verified the egg as genuine and negotiated its sale to a collector.
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