Vice President Joe Biden told Michigan Democrats during a dinner that a debt of gratitude is owed to authorities and regular citizens for their “resilience, heroism, commitment and love” as they responded to the Boston Marathon bombings and Texas fertilizer plant explosion.
Sen. Greg Ball, a Republican state senator in New York, caught flak online by asking in a Tweet if the Boston Marathon bombing suspect should be tortured, and Ball later issued a statement defending his position on torture without mentioning his comment.
John Tomkins, a former Iowa letter carrier who sent threatening letters and dud pipe bombs to investment firms and dubbed himself “The Bishop” bomber, apologized during a federal pre-sentencing hearing in Chicago, saying: “There are no words to describe the shame and disappointment I feel in myself.”
Ken Anderson, a former district attorney who prosecuted an innocent man on a charge of murder who then spent nearly 25 years in prison, was found guilty of criminal contempt and tampering charges after a Texas judge ruled that the ex-prosecutor intentionally concealed evidence in the case.
Anthony Marshall, the late Brooke Astor’s son and 88-year-old heir to her fortune, remains free on bail in New York while he pursues a further appeal of his conviction on charges of exploiting his mother’s dementia and plundering her millions.
Mario Poli, 66, a priest in Argentina, was inaugurated as the new archbishop of Buenos Aires, taking over the post held by Jorge Bergoglio before he became Pope Francis.
Salma Kabal, the 23-year-old estranged wife of convicted bomb plotter Ashik Ali, was acquitted by a London jury of withholding knowledge of her husband’s plans to explode knapsack bombs in Britain.
Christopher Knight, a 47-year-old Maine man who lived in the woods as a hermit for nearly three decades and whom police suspect of stealing food from a camp for children with special needs, was found carrying bacon, marshmallows, $395 in cash and other items when he was arrested on burglary charges.
Alisher Usmanov, a Russian billionaire who owns interests in mining and Internet companies as well as a stake in Britain’s Arsenal soccer club, ousted steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal from the top of The Sunday Time’s list of wealthiest people in Britain with a fortune valued at more than $20 billion.
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