Mike O'Neill, manager of New England Aquarium's Giant Ocean Tank, said Myrtle -- a 95-year-old green sea turtle -- is "in robust condition," as the 500-pound reptile passed her latest physical exam at the Boston attraction.
Tate Rheaume, 20, who was ordered held without bail pending an evidence hearing, pleaded innocent to aggravated murder on claims that he was "engaged in extraordinarily dangerous driving" and traveling between 76 and 82 mph during a July 2023 pursuit in Rutland, Vt., that ended in a fatal head-on crash.
Patricia Wick, of Jamestown, N.D., was sentenced to about 19 years in prison, ordered to register as an offender against children and serve 10 years of supervised probation in connection with the death of an infant and injury of another boy that authorities tied to her unlicensed child care center.
Alvaro Uribe, former Colombian president, said an upcoming trial in a case of witness tampering and procedural fraud "is being carried out ... without evidence to infer that I was trying to bribe witnesses or deceive justice."
Nadine Menendez, wife of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., is requesting a delay to her criminal trial, as her lawyers wrote in a letter to a federal judge that she was diagnosed with a medical condition requiring a "surgical procedure," along with "possibly significant follow-up and recovery treatment."
Jorge Glas, 54, former vice president of Ecuador, was in stable condition and hospitalized at the Naval Hospital in Guayaquil after he was found in a "deep self-induced coma" in jail, authorities said.
Fayyaz Shah, board chairperson for the Austin chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, claimed that "there is a disturbing pattern of Islamophobia toward the Muslim student population of the UT campus in Austin," after a student wearing a kurta shalwar was reportedly attacked at the Texas school.
Andrew Robb, an attorney, said the family of Abimbola Ogunbanjo -- the former chair of the Nigerian stock exchange -- filed a lawsuit seeking "answers and accountability" for a California helicopter crash that killed the businessman and five others.
Zeljko Ilicic, 43, said his horse sanctuary in Lapovo, Serbia, is the only one "in the Balkans at the moment and we hope that, in time, we will be recognized by the state."