LITTLE ROCK — Mariane Pearl, widow of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who disappeared in Karachi, Pakistan, while researching a story on Islamic militancy, has withdrawn a lawsuit, filed in New York, seeking damages against al-Qaida, a dozen reputed terrorists and Pakistan's largest bank.
Jeffrey Weinsier, 40, a Miami television reporter investigating a story on school violence, was arrested after carrying a loaded gun onto school property and was charged with possession of a firearm on school grounds, trespassing on school property with a weapon and resisting officers without violence, authorities said.
Wes Anderson, 38, the Texas-born director of offbeat comedies The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, will be awarded the Stockholm film festival's Visionary Award for his humane and humorous portrayals of lonely people.
Alexander Pichushkin, 33, who once boasted he wanted to kill a person for each of the 64 squares on a chessboard and said he was only one death shy of his goal, has been convicted in Moscow of 48 murders, most of them in southern Moscow's Bittsa Park over five years.
Bob Kerrey, 64, a former Democratic U.S. senator and governor from Nebraska and current president of The New School in New York, said he won't enter the race to replace retiring Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Republican.
Anna Tang, 20, a student at Wellesley College in Cambridge, Mass., pleaded innocent to charges of armed assault with intent to murder and home invasion after officials say she stabbed her former boyfriend, 20-year-old Wolfe Styke, as he slept in his dorm room at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, sending him to a hospital where he was reportedly in serious condition.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a New York Democrat and presidential candidate, told Essence magazine that her husband, Bill, often gives her romantic gifts, such as a Chanel watch that reminded him of teeth and her dental surgery, adding that "he's always bringing me back things from his trips," including a giant wooden giraffe from Africa.
Jeffery Mumani, 25, has been charged with commercial burglary after he spent 10 hours trapped in a metal air shaft at a CVS pharmacy in Silver Springs Shores, Fla., a predicament that he told the Ocala Star-Banner he found himself in after he tried to rescue a cat he heard inside the shaft.
Capt. Bill Hilton, a Washington State Patrol trooper, said that for the first time the National Association of Uniform Manufacturers and Distributors has named the troopers, with their crisp black bow ties and blue "Smokey Bear" hats, the best-looking state police uniforms in the country.
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