LITTLE ROCK — Glenn Fine, the Justice Department inspector general, said he will step down in January after 10 years as the agency’s watchdog, during which time he criticized department tactics in the war on terror and the firings of nine U.S. attorneys, because he wants to pursue new professional challenges.
Danielle Le Guennec, the wife of a 71-year-old retired French electrician who once worked for Pablo Picasso, said 271 never-before seen works by Picasso that the couple kept for years in their garage were a gift, but the artist’s son has sued them for alleged illegal receipt of the works thought to be worth $79 million.
Rep. Mike Pence
of Indiana, the third-ranking Republican in the U.S. House, has said he’ll decide after Jan. 1 whether to run for president, adding that he and his family are “determined to take the next few months and pray” about it.
Alex Lee Baker, 20, of Clarksville, Tenn., who is accused of making three bogus calls to 911, concerning a murder, a stabbing and a buried corpse, said he placed the calls because he was bored and anxious after not smoking a cigarette for two days, police said.
Tariq Aziz, Saddam Hussein’s longtime foreign minister and the only Christian in Saddam’s inner circle, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for terrorizing Shiite Kurds during the Iran-Iraq war, adding to a death sentence the 74-year-old faces from another case.
Lois Speelman, 100, said she’s “bruised a little” but will be back to work soon, after police said the Milwaukee Wal-Mart greeter was hospitalized after being shoved by a customer when the centenarian tried to see whether the woman paid for items in her shopping cart.
Khawaja Sharif, chief justice of the Lahore High Court, has barred Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari from pardoning Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy, before it rules on her appeal.
Dana Bowser, 33, will be cited for driving too fast for conditions, police said, after crews had to use ropes and ladders to retrieve her from her pickup after it ran off the icy Route 68 near Evans City, Pa., and landed in tree tops about 30 feet above ground in a ravine.
Cedric Miller, the New Jersey pastor who said Facebook can lead to adultery and then admitted to having a three-way sexual relationship with his wife and a male church assistant a decade ago, will return to his post after taking a 90-day sabbatical, church leaders announced.
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