LITTLE ROCK — Craig Brooks, an Australian paramedic, said a Melbourne woman was in serious condition with suspected internal bleeding after she forgot to pull her car’s hand brake and was run over twice by the car, once as it rolled down her driveway and then after the vehicle bounced off a fence on the other side of the road.
Blaise Compaore, president of Burkina Faso, has been re-elected, winning more than 80 percent of the vote in Sunday’s presidential poll, election officials said.
Christopher Stevens
and Jarrekus Tendleton, both 23, have been charged with auto theft after police in Jackson, Miss., say the pair stole a $160,000 Lamborghini, as well as the truck hauling it, from a Wal-Mart parking lot.
Thomas Mulvaney
texted friends and family that he and his grandfather, 73-year-old Christopher Hoffman, needed help after their canoe overturned on New York’s Hudson River, leading to their rescue when recipients of the text messages called 911.
Andy Williams, who has been performing at his own theater in Branson since 1992 and will turn 83 on Dec. 3, told The Springfield News-Leader that “as long as I feel good and can sing well and I’m still having fun, I’ll keep performing.”
Nicholas Bell, 23, was arrested on a manslaughter charge after Manchester, Vt., police say he meant to play a prank on Jeffrey Charbonneau and wake him up with an air gun, but ended up firing a shot from a loaded rifle into Charbonneau’s chest.
Candice Hermeler, 29, an Australian twin who police say shot herself in the head at a Colorado shooting range as part of a suicide pact with her sister, has been released from a Denver-area hospital.
Morgan Tsvangirai, prime minister of Zimbabwe, is suing President Robert Mugabe, accusing him of violating the constitution and their power-sharing agreement by unilaterally appointing 10 provincial governors last month.
Katie Boucher
had one expensive pizza after a clerk at a Bristol, Conn., pizzeria mistakenly charged her debit card $2,600 for a $30 pie, an error that was eventually fixed but not before Boucher racked up $230 in overdraft and late fees for due bills.
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