LITTLE ROCK — Peter Phillips, 30, the eldest grandson of Queen Elizabeth II who is 11th in line to the throne but does not have any official royal duties, married his Canadian fiancee, Autumn Kelly, also 30, in a private ceremony at Windsor Castle.
Rep. Xavier Becerra, DCalif., delivering his party's weekly radio address, urged President Bush and congressional Republicans to back an updated GI Bill, which has passed the House and would guarantee a full scholarship at any in-state public university, along with a monthly housing stipend, for anyone who serves in the military for at least three years.
Peter Baker, a former White House correspondent for The Washington Post, and a colleague at the paper, Rick Atkinson, won the 2007 Gerald R. Ford Prizes for Distinguished Reporting for, respectively, coverage of the presidency and coverage of national defense.
Chuck Strazinsky, a trustee in Chardon Township, Ohio, which rejected $10,000 in federal disaster aid for a snowstorm in March, explained the decision to The Plain Dealer newspaper, saying it was a typical snowstorm unworthy of federal aid and that the money should be reserved for true emergencies.
Samdhong Rinpoche, Tibet's prime minister in exile, said a new round of talks between the Dalai Lama's envoys and Chinese officials is expected to be held in mid-June, adding in comments to reporters in Stockholm that he hopes China's leadership will "be serious about dialogue."
Gennai Yanagisawa, 75, a Japanese man who developed the GEN H-4, the world's smallest helicopter, will take flight on May 25 in the Italian city of Vinci, the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci, in tribute to the Renaissance genius's original idea.
Thomas Kontogiannis, 59, a New York financier, was sentenced in San Diego to more than eight years in prison for laundering hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes for jailed former Rep. Randy Cunningham, R-Calif., who resigned from Congress in November 2005 when he pleaded guilty to taking $2.4 million in bribes.
Joe Barron, 52, one of 40 ministers at the Dallas-area Prestonwood Baptist Church, one of the largest churches in the country with 26,000 members, was caught in an Internet sex sting and charged with online solicitation of a minor, according to police in Bryan, Texas, and has resigned.
Milton Jones, 53, a Detroit gang leader and founder of the gang Young Boys Inc., has been sentenced to 30 years in prison on drug charges after agreeing to plead guilty two years ago and aiding prosecutors in exchange for their dropping murder charges.
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