LITTLE ROCK — Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, Saudi Arabia’s king, is traveling to the U.S. for further medical checks and to receive treatment after examinations showed a slipped disc had caused a blood clot that put pressure on his nerves, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
Brett Miller, co-owner of the Padre Hotel in Bakersfield, Calif., apologized and offered a free stay and dinner to Hillary Martin after her honeymoon with husband Jason, who was on leave after finishing Marine Corps boot camp, went awry because the 18-year-olds were denied lodging under a hotel policy requiring guests to be 21 years old to get a room.
Chris Bowen, the Australian Immigration Minister, said protests won’t change the result of the visa process for 10 men at the Christmas Island jail who sewed their lips together over delays in processing their refugee applications.
Melissa Wagaman, 33, of Hagerstown, Md., has been sentenced to five years in prison for breaking into her neighbor’s house wearing only a bridal skirt and veil after testifying that cold medicine and marijuana made her hallucinate that she was getting married and that her mother was locked in the neighbor’s basement.
Jean-Pierre Bemba, a former vice president of Democratic Republic of Congo, sees his trial start today at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, over the mass rape and murder of civilians by his followers in the Central African Republic in 2002 and 2003.
Kenneth McAllister, 33, was fired from the Citgo gas station where he worked in Homewood, Ill., for wearing a T-shirt on which he’d written “Say no to bongs” in protest of the store’s decision to sell the devices often used to smoke marijuana.
Natalie Yanish
drew the ace of clubs in a tie-breaker for a seat on the Kingsbury Grade General Improvement District board in Nevada to beat rival Robert McDowell under a state law that allows candidates to settle ties by drawing cards or flipping a coin.
Thomas Steven Sanders, a Mississippi man who was erroneously declared legally dead in 1994, has pleaded innocent in federal court to kidnapping a 12-year-old Las Vegas girl whose body was found by hunters in Louisiana.
Christopher Gordon, of Ontario, Canada, has been charged with fraud after reportedly faking terminal brain cancer and then organizing a fundraiser to bilk his friends and family out of $2,900.
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