LITTLE ROCK — Karen Hunt, a spokesman for the San Bernardino County, Calif., sheriff’s office, said Victorville school officials placed an elementary school on lockdown after a fight broke out among a group of parents at a kindergarten graduation ceremony.
Elena Kagan, U.S. solicitor general and President Barack Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, has received a “well qualified” ranking from the American Bar Association, the nation’s largest legal professional organization.
Jerry Whipple, 48, who was rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard after he apparently passed out on a pool float at a Tampa-area beach and ended up drifting about a mile from Florida’s shore in the Gulf of Mexico, won’t face any charges from the drunken episode, said Cecilia Barreda, spokesman for the Pinellas County sheriff’s office.
Gary Faulkner, a Colorado man who was arrested in Pakistan after traveling there to hunt down Osama bin Laden, said he’ll “absolutely” try again, adding: “You’ll find out at the end of August.”
Stephanie Foster, 34, has been ordered held without bail by a Vigo County, Ind., court after police say she stabbed Ashley and Michael Speer at their home in a plot to steal their month old son to pass off as her own because she didn’t wantto tell her husband she had miscarried again.
Prince Albert II, 52, the leader of Monaco, said he hopes the Riviera principality will “welcome with kindness” his future bride, Charlene Wittstock, a former Olympic swimmer from South Africa who is 20 years his junior, adding that the country will see a royal wedding in the summer of 2011.
Ishaq Kanmi, 24, a man who urged British Muslims to join a plot to assassinate former British prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, has been sentenced in a Manchester, England, court to five years in prison.
Eliot Spitzer, the former governor of New York who resigned after admitting he solicited high-price prostitutes, has been hired by CNN to host a new primetime discussion program in the fall with Kathleen Parker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist for The Washington Post.
Jimmy Metellus, 33, the Haitian captain of a boat that sank off Florida’s Atlantic Coast with at least 25 people aboard, has pleaded guilty in West Palm Beach to charges that include nine counts of smuggling that resulted in death.
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