LITTLE ROCK — Robert Gibbs, White House spokesman, said the administration will do what it can to ensure that Gen. Stanley McChrystal, 55, who spent more than 30 years in the Army and resigned from his job as commander of the Afghanistan war over a magazine article, can retire at the rank of four stars, despite the fact that he has been at that rank for just over a year instead of the three years required by the service.
Former President Bill Clinton
has endorsed Democrat Andrew Romanoff in his challenge against Colorado’s Sen. Michael Bennet, who was appointed to the seat last year and has the support of President Barack Obama.
William Shanteau, a Toledo, Ohio, man, and 13 Michigan autoworkers have won a share of a Powerball jackpot and opted to take a lump sum, worth about $25.1 million, which means that after taxes, each autoworker gets $1.2 million.
Rafael Pequero Campo, has been charged in Allentown, Pa., with assault and reckless endangerment after police say his gun accidentally discharged and the bullet struck a woman sleeping in the apartment below him.
Mark Kirk, the Illinois Republican running for President Barack Obama’s former U.S. Senate seat, publicly apologized for being “careless” in describing, and often embellishing, his military service and background and admitted that he was twice scolded by the Pentagon for improperly mingling politics withhis military duties.
Massimo Tartaglia, 42, who hurled a statuette at Premier Silvio Berlusconi, breaking the Italian leader’s nose and two of his teeth, has been found not fit to stand trial and placed under observation for one year in a psychiatric hospital.
Alan Ingram, school superintendent in Springfield, Mass., has taken responsibility for tests given to the district’s 11th- and 12th-graders that contained about 100 errors, including such misspelled phrases as “truning around” and “For God’s skae.”
Jayant Patel, 60, an American doctor accused of botching operations while he was the chief surgeon at an Australian hospital, has been found guilty in Queensland state of killing three of his patients and grievously harming another.
Joel H. Potter, 57, has been sentenced in San Diego to two years in federal prison for selling the military defective bolts for its helicopters.
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