LITTLE ROCK — Recep Tayyip Erdogan, prime minister of Turkey, vowed at a funeral for 11 soldiers killed by Kurdish rebels that the Iraq-based insurgents responsible for the attack will “drown in their own blood.”
Donnell Bak, 62, collected about 600 signatures on a letter asking the Stanislaus County, Calif., Board of Supervisors to correct what he sees as a dearth of patriotism by requiring all businesses and nonprofit agencies in the county to fly the American flag.
Scott Firebaugh, 56, of Knoxville, Tenn., won the AARP’s national spelling bee, correctly spelling “keratomileusis,” a noun that means surgery to correct the cornea, to take the title after more than nine hours and nearly 70 rounds of spelling.
David Broide, 13, of Hollywood, Fla., has nearly completed his bar mitzvah project, a collection of 1.5 million pennies, each one representing a child killed in the Holocaust, intended to make the mass murder more tangible and commemorate his late grandfather Jose Broide, who fought Nazis in Poland as a partisan.
Caroline Jamieson, a New York City woman who wrote President Barack Obama to ask for help resolving her husband’s immigration problem, got a response she didn’t expect when federal agents turned up at her home and detained her husband, an engineer from Cameroon whose application for political asylum has been rejected.
Jonathan Perfetto, 35, of Manchester, N.H., who was convicted in 2002 of possessing child pornography, is arguing in court that a probation condition that forbids contact with children, effectively barring him from Jehovah’s Witnesses services, violates his freedom of religion.
Jason Cottle, 45, found the high school class ring he had lost 27 years ago while swimming in a quarry after the owner of the Hallowell, Maine, site drained it, and also recovered the diving mask he lost when he went looking for the ring in 1983.
Anita van der Sloot, mother of the suspect in the murder of one woman in Peru and the disappearance of another in Aruba, told Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf that her son “is sick in his head.”
Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe
of Naples, Italy, will cooperate with an investigation by Italian prosecutors into a purported web of kickbacks and favors involving businessmen, church hierarchy and public officials, the Vatican pledged.
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