LITTLE ROCK — Sen. Frank Lautenberg, 86, a New Jersey Democrat now the oldest member of the Senate with the death of West Virginia’s Robert Byrd, said he is free of cancer after undergoing six rounds of chemotherapy, adding: “Though it’s not yet visible, there is definitely hair growing on my scalp.”
Kim Silver, 42, and Marvin Hunter, 61, tied the knot atop a tree stand hunting platform at the Anamosa Bowhunters Archery Club in Iowa, with the bride wearing a silk gown made by camouflage specialists Mossy Oak and the bridegroom dressed in camo shirt and pants.
Beau Biden, 41, Delaware’s attorney general and son of Vice President Joe Biden, has returned to work after spending several weeks recuperating from a mild stroke in May.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, R-Calif., has rejected a recommendation to parole Bruce Davis, 67, a member of Charles Manson’s cult who was convicted of taking part in two 1969 slayings.
Queen Elizabeth II, 84, Canada’s symbolic head of state, arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and said it was “good to be home” as she embarked on her 22nd official visit to Canada, a member of the British Commonwealth of former colonies.
Paul DeLong, head of Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources’ Forestry Division, paid a $263 fine after he turned himself in for mistakenly shooting a hen turkey out of season.
Johanna Sigurdardottir, 68, Iceland’s prime minister, has wed writer Jonina Leosdottir under a new law legalizing same-sex marriage in the country.
Hector Castro, 27, has been arrested in McAllen, Texas, over allegations he beat his 2-year-old stepdaughter to death because she wouldn’t stop crying while he was trying to watch the United States-Ghana World Cup match.
Hasan Dastagir, the defense lawyer for five Americans convicted in Pakistan of plotting terrorist attacks and sentenced to 10 years in jail, said he has filed an appeal arguing that the conviction should be overturned because it did not take into account evidence provided by the defense.
Stephen Hawking, known for his work on black holes, and fellow physicist Leonard Mlodinow have coauthored The Grand Design, due out in September, that publisher Bantam Dell said will examine evidence of “a unified theory” that can “describe and explain all the forces of nature.”
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