LITTLE ROCK — Larry Crain, a lawyer for World Association for Children and Parents, said a Russian boy who was sent back to Moscow by his adoptive mother, Torry Hansen of Shelbyville, Tenn., who said she didn’t want him any more because he had severe psychological problems, has been placed back in a Russian orphanage.
Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Calif., was given a warning after he was stopped by police in Virginia for speeding while he was talking to KFBK radio on the way from his Virginia home to his Washington office.
Sen. John Kerry, DMass., said he always intended to pay about $500,000 in Massachusetts taxes on his $7 million yacht, which he decided to dock in tax-free Rhode Island, but conceded that he mishandled the public outcry over the situation, adding: “I don’t think I dealt with it fast enough, effectively enough. There’s nobody to blame but myself for that.”
Fiona C. Lee, 26, has been arrested in Indianapolis on child-neglect and drug charges after police said they found cocaine and marijuana in a home where a 4-year-old boy picked up a gun from a kitchen table and fired a shot that killed Aunesti Lee Allen, Lee’s 3-year-old daughter.
Mancel Prince, who at 91 years of age is the country’s oldest mail carrier, is retiring after driving more than 1.1 million miles over 35 years delivering mail in Decherd, Tenn.
Jaroslaw Kowalczyk, 32, of Des Plaines, Ill., faces human-smuggling charges in Albuquerque, N.M., after authorities say he drove two Polish immigrants from Chicago to Albuquerque this month, charging them $1,000 each and trying to help them get driver’s licenses in a state where no proof of immigration status is required.
Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., said he will vote to confirm Elena Kagan as a Supreme Court justice, making him the fifth Republican to back President Barack Obama’s nominee.
Michael Dupree, who is serving a 12-year sentence for burglary and cocaine possession stemming from a 2007 break-in of a van in St. Petersburg, Fla., is suing the man he’s convicted of burglarizing, contending that Anthony McKoy and two others roughed him up during a citizen’s arrest.
Ian Altman, 37, suffered burns on his legs and shrapnel in his legs and arms after the bicyclist riding in a multiple sclerosis fundraiser in Durango, Colo., was bombarded by a cannon blast that authorities suspect was a teenage prank.
Front Section, Pages 1 on 07/31/2010