LITTLE ROCK — Pope Benedict XVI
made his first public appearance since having the cast removed from his broken right wrist at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, and joked that his hand was "freed," but "still a bit lazy."
Xu Zhiyong, 36, a celebrated legal scholar and founder of the Beijing-based Open Constitution Initiative, was unexpectedly freed by China on bond after more than three weeks in prison on charges of tax evasion.
Solomon Ayres
is set to begin the first phase of training for the Green Bay, Wis., Police Department and will become the first black police officer in the department's 152-year history.
Sergei Polonsky, a Russian construction magnate who made headlines for saying that anyone who failed to become a billionaire in Russia is a loser, has admitted that his once titanic company, Mirax Group, is going under and will halt all construction.
Mose Jefferson, a New Orleans political operative, was convicted on two counts each of bribery and obstruction of justice for paying $100,000 in kickbacks to a former New Orleans School Board president less than a month after his brother William Jefferson, a former Louisiana congressman, was found guilty of unrelated corruption charges.
Pamela Poorman, 51, an Annville, Pa., woman, has been charged with fatally stabbing her 51-year-old live-in boyfriend of five years during a dispute that reportedly began as an argument over her feeding the dog before serving him dinner.
Sean Lynde, 36, a self employed graphic designer, is accused by New York City authorities of methodically killing at least four of his girlfriend's cats and torturing two others while the unsuspecting woman continued to adopt new ones over a four-month period.
Katharine Ferrand Dyer, 84, who Boulder County, Colo., investigators thought might have been killed in 1954 and found along a Boulder creek, has actually been living in Australia for the past 46 years, putting their investigation of Boulder's infamous "Jane Doe" murder back to square one.
Sgt. J.D. Nelson, an Alameda County, Calif., sheriff's deputy, said a Southwest Airlines flight on which a man exposed himself to a woman seated next to him and struck her and a couple other passengers before taking off all his clothes was forced to return to Oakland.
Keith Maynard, an Ansonia, Conn., town alderman, was arraigned and released on bond after being charged with attacking his fiancee four days before their wedding by donning a mask, throwing a blanket over her, hitting her with a baseball bat and running out the back door of their home.
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