LITTLE ROCK — Salvatore LaRosa
has been charged with robbery after New York City police say he and an accomplice held up a Staten Island pizzeria and fled with a bag they believed held the day’s proceeds but really was full of pizza dough.
Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s pro-democracy leader who was released this month after more than seven years under house arrest, has been reunited with her younger son, Kim Aris, 33, who lives in Britain and last saw his mother in December 2000.
Ann Marie Buerkle, a Republican, defeated Rep. Dan Maffei, winning 104,374 to the incumbent Democrat’s 103,807, making her the first woman to represent central New York’s 25th Congressional District.
Lauren Paul
of the nonprofit North Star Rescue told the San Jose Mercury News that the animal-rescue group is trying to find homes for about 1,000 rats that were rescued from a Los Angeles house featured on the A&E reality TV show Hoarders.
Velma Hart, the chief financial officer for Am Vets who told President Barack Obama during a town-hall meeting that she was “exhausted” from defending him and his economic policies, has been laid off as part of the Maryland-based nonprofit’s effort to cut costs.
Rep. Jim Costa, a California Democrat who two years ago won in his district with nearly 75 percent of the vote, has retained his seat, beating Republican Andy Vidak by 3,031 votes with just a small number of ballots still outstanding.
Roy Charles Laird, 88, has been charged with murder in the death of his 86-year-old wife, Clara Laird, at a California nursing home, in a shooting that the couple’s daughter has described as a mercy killing for her mother, who suffered from dementia and declining health.
Rep. Solomon Ortiz, D-Texas, conceded defeat to Republican Blake Farenthold after he said unofficial results from a recount showed him down by about 650 votes in the seat that Ortiz has held since it was created in 1982.
John W. Forbes II, 54, Virginia’s former secretary of finance, has been sentenced in Richmond to 10 years in prison for wire fraud.
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