President Barack Obama said he plans to celebrate Earth Day on Wednesday by visiting the Florida Everglades, adding in his weekly radio address that “there’s no greater threat to our planet than climate change.”
Doug Hughes, a mail carrier who was charged with operating an unregistered aircraft and violating national airspace after he flew his gyrocopter onto the U.S. Capitol lawn, said he was driving back to his Ruskin, Fla., home and will be under house arrest while he awaits a May 8 court hearing.
Adam al-Faki, the governor of Sudan’s South Kordofan state, said rebels killed 136 civilians and wounded 150 more during attempts to disrupt the country’s presidential election, in which voting ended last week.
Jesse Kidder, a police officer in New Richmond, Ohio, was praised for holding his fire when a suspect in a homicide, identified as Michael Wilcox, 27, charged at Kidder and repeatedly told the officer to shoot him, a standoff that was captured on video by a body camera Kidder was wearing.
Gov. Phil Bryant of Mississippi rappelled 278 feet down the side of the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino, the state’s tallest building, to raise money for Habitat for Humanity of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Jack Brandes, the sheriff of Austin County, Texas, said veterinarian Kristen Lindsey, who was shown in a Facebook post bragging about killing a cat with a bow and arrow, will not face criminal charges unless an investigation proves that the picture of the dead cat is genuine.
Mindy McCarty-Stewart, the principal of Mason High School in Ohio, canceled a student-led event that invited girls to spend a day wearing a Muslim headscarf and issued an apology, adding that the school received numerous messages that forced her to reconsider the event’s ability to meet its goal of combating stereotypes.
Brett Matthew Paul Thomas, 56, who was convicted in California after a nine-day rampage in which he and his friend Mark Titch killed four people in 1977, has been denied parole and cannot reapply for seven years.
Randy Brogdon, the new chairman of the Oklahoma Republican Party, said in a fundraising email that seven staff members are being laid off because the state chapter has run out of money, adding that he will work without a salary and seek help from volunteers until the party’s finances turn around.