LITTLE ROCK — Raymond Martin, the Gallatin County, Ill., sheriff, has been convicted of trafficking marijuana and plotting to kill two people who planned to testify against him and will soon be out of a job after the county board chairman, Randy Drone, said Martin’s conviction will finally allow the board to fire him.
Mark Zuckerberg, 26, the founder of the online social networking site Facebook, has pledged $100 million over the next five years to help struggling schools in Newark, N.J.
Howard Veal, 44, a Muskegon, Mich., man accused of fathering 23 children with 14 women, has been sentenced to two to four years in prison for failing to pay $60,000 in child support to one woman, a fraction of the $533,000 that the state attorney general’s office says he owes.
Jeffrey Zucker, 45, the chief executive officer of NBC Universal, said in a memorandum to employees that he will step down once Comcast Corp. completes its takeover of the company.
William Ayers, cofounder of the anti-Vietnam War group Weather Underground, has been denied emeritus faculty status at the University of Illinois after trustees Chairman Christopher Kennedy noted that the recently retired professor had once dedicated a book to, among others Sirhan Sirhan, the man who killed Kennedy’s father, Robert F. Kennedy.
Jessica Gamble, 21, who is accused of giving her 2-year-old daughter marijuana, has pleaded innocent in a Cincinnati court to charges of corrupting another with drugs, child endangering and tampering with evidence.
Rogelio Vizcarra, mayor of San Cristobal, Peru, said his father’s skull has been stolen from his grave and the perpetrators claim that they won’t give it back unless the mayor withdraws his bid for re-election, a demand that Vizcarra said he won’t heed.
Frederick vom Saal, a researcher at the University of Missouri-Columbia who linked the use of plastichardener bisphenol A in baby products to abnormal cell development that has led to early puberty, diabetes and cancer, is one of 10 Heinz Awards recipients this year and will receive a $100,000 cash prize.
The Rev. Al Sharpton
will host a half-hour news and information show, called Education SuperHighway, that will air in more than 160 markets, said ESH Holdings, a new minoritygroup-owned multimedia company.
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