LITTLE ROCK — King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia’s 86-year-old ruler, is recovering from a successful back operation in New York City, the country’s interior minister said, adding that he “enjoys good health and he has walked on his own feet.”
Carlos Bustamante, mayor-elect of Tijuana, Mexico, said he will replace the border city’s top police official, Julian Leyzaola, who launched a campaign to loosen the grip of drug cartels on the city’s police forces, with Leyzaola’s closest aide, Gustavo Huerta.
Michael Brea, a 31-year old New York actor accused of hacking his mother to death with a sword, said he felt like the film character Neo from The Matrix before the attack, “hearing voices and feeling powerful,” adding that he “was doing the work of God” when he “killed the demon inside her.”
Kenneth William Storheim, archbishop of the Canadian archdiocese of the Orthodox Church in America, turned himself in and was charged with two counts of sexual assault, Winnipeg, Manitoba, police said, without giving details.
Joshua Shaffer, a 5-year-old West Virginia boy, has donated his life savings of nearly $46 in change to help rebuild the Sissonville Volunteer Fire Department, which burned down in an electrical fire.
Elvira Gomez, 43, of Argentina accused her father, Armando, of sexually abusing her for 30 years and having 10 children with her, including one who she said killed himself after learning his grandfather was his father, but he’s denied the charges despite DNA proof that she and her nine living kids share the same dad.
Mark Bruscino, head of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department bear management program, said he supports hunting grizzly bears now that the population near Yellowstone National Park is more than 600, three times what it was when the bear was put on the endangered list in 1975.
Dieter Graumann, a 60-year-old businessman and son of Jewish refugees, has been elected by the Central Council of Jews in Frankfurt as its first leader born after the Holocaust, saying “Judaism doesn’t always exclusively mean persecution” and vowing to focus the organization more on contemporary Jewish life.
Sam Monroe Smith, 40, of Seminole County, Fla., was charged with culpable negligence after failing to recapture Filet Mignon, a 500-pound bull a neighbor had just given him, after the animal escaped, because police said it was a potential traffic hazard on a nearby highway.
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