Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein party leader, was arrested by police in Northern Ireland over allegations of involvement in the Irish Republican Army’s 1972 abduction, killing and secret burial of a Belfast widow.
Kwasi Enin, 17, a Shirley, N.Y., high school student who scored 2,250 out of 2,400 on his SAT and was accepted to all eight Ivy League schools, announced before a phalanx of media cameras that he has decided on Yale.
House Speaker John Boehner, 64, an Ohio Republican, was to undergo an unscheduled and minor medical procedure to address recurring back problems, his spokesman Michael Steel said.
Andrew Michael Nisbet, a San Francisco Bay-area golf coach, was charged with three felony counts of soliciting for murder, accused of trying to hire a hit man to target three boys who Nisbet was accused of molesting.
Jared Ehlers of Moab, Utah, pleaded innocent in Salt Lake City to federal charges that accuse him of stealing a priceless fossilized Jurassic-period three-toed-dinosaur footprint, which has not been recovered.
John Allen, a retired Marine general and former commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, told a Senate subcommittee in Washington that corruption, not the Taliban, is the biggest threat to the future of the war-torn country.
Marissa Devault, an Arizona woman convicted of beating her husband to death with a hammer, received a life sentence instead of the death penalty in the 2009 slaying of Dale Harrell.
Juan Antonio Rendon-Diaz, a Mexican who was in the U.S. illegally and living in Harlingen, Texas, when he was arrested, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for trying to mail aluminum cans filled with cocaine from a Texas post office and faces deportation after completing his prison term.
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who was the Vatican’s No. 2 under retired Pope Benedict XVI, defended his new, sprawling apartment as “normal” and denied in a post on the website of the Genoa archdiocese that Pope Francis, who prizes frugality, is angry with him.
Albrecht Muth, 49, a German who adopted various personas over the years, including pretending to be an Iraqi general and a European count, was sentenced in Washington to 50 years in prison for the murder of his 91-year-old wife, Viola Drath, a German writer and socialite.
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