LITTLE ROCK — Sheryl Weinstein, a New York investor who says she had an affair 16 years ago with jailed financier Bernard Madoff, said she plans to forward him a copy of her book about their relationship, Madoff's Other Secret: Love, Money, Bernie and Me.
Chris Brown
was sentenced in Los Angeles to five years of probation and six months of community labor to be served in his home state of Virginia for beating fellow singer Rihanna, his then-girlfriend.
President Barack Obama
and first lady Michelle Obama visited Tuesday evening with White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett at her home and at a restaurant on Martha's Vineyard during their weeklong vacation on the island.
Errin Hubbard, 23, of Grand Junction, Colo., was arrested on assault and neglect charges after being accused by a fellow nursing-home aide of using a pillow to silence a screaming patient with multiple sclerosis.
James Auchincloss, the estranged half brother of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, was indicted Tuesday in Oregon on felony charges of possessing child pornography after an October 2008 police search of his home found images of young boys on his computer.
Solomon Jackson Jr.
of Columbia, S.C., a retired state employee who said he spent $2 on the lottery, has stepped forward to claim his winning ticket for a $260 million Powerball jackpot.
Jaren Ashley Hare, 19, and her boyfriend, Charles Jason Darnell, 32, were charged in Oxford, Fla., with manslaughter, third-degree murder and child abuse in the death of Hare's 2-year-old daughter, Shaianna, who was suffocated by an 8-foot pet python.
Emilio Morenatti, an Associated Press photographer whose left foot was amputated after a bomb blast in Afghanistan, said he was "completely optimistic" after being transferred to a rehabilitation hospital in Baltimore, where he will be fitted for a prosthesis.
Ronald Douglas Mc-Gowan, 32, of West Covina, Calif., who was arrested after seeking treatment for a severed tongue, was ordered to stand trial in the rapes of four women, one of whom said she bit off the tongue of her attacker.
Corey Miller, the rapper known as "C-Murder" who was sentenced to life in prison in the murder of a teenager, was sentenced in Baton Rouge to 10 more years in prison for firing into a nightclub after he refused to be searched.
Michael Restaino Jr. of Linden, N.J., was arrested with more than $2,400 in cash and a holdup note, police said, after the cab he was riding in was stopped several blocks from the Roselle Savings Bank after a robbery.
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