LITTLE ROCK — Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, N.J., said he wants his city to become the “first example of a public school turnaround” with the help of Facebook Inc. founder Mark Zuckerberg’s $100 million donation, although the overhaul may include closing some schools.
Mark Douglas, a McIntosh County commissioner in rural Georgia, where street signs marking Green Acres, Boone’s Farm and Mary Jane Lane are frequently stolen, suggested making the names boring in the hope of dissuading thieves and saving the county the $17,000-a-year cost to replace the signs.
Michelle Obama, the first lady, gave her healthyeating initiative a global showcase when she hosted spouses of world leaders at a farm north of New York City, treating them to a seasonal lunch featuring bounty from the farm and the White House garden.
Shimon Peres, the Israeli president, said in an interview on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS program that a nuclear weapon, which Israel has never confirmed having, wouldn’t work as a deterrent against Iran because the Islamic nation isn’t threatened with attack.
Edeilson Nascimento, a 29-year-old tire repairman in northeastern Brazil, is recovering after surgeons removed a 4-inch blade that had been stuck in his head for three years after a bar fight.
Brian Mattert
of Cheyenne, Wyo., faces several criminal charges after he doused himself with white latex paint and told officers responding to a domesticviolence call at his house that if they shot him with a Taser, he’d die, but he was twice hit with the stun gun anyway during a scuffle with the officers.
Billy Joe Gregg Jr ., 25, an Ohio dairy-farm worker who was unwittingly filmed beating cows with pitchforks and crowbars, pleaded guilty to six counts of animal cruelty and was sentenced on the misdemeanors to eight months in jail, which was reduced to four months because of time served.
Jeffrey Kovic, 23, of Waterbury, Conn., was arrested and held in lieu of $100,000 bond on misdemeanor larceny, criminal mischief and conspiracy charges over allegations that he stole an American flag from Waterbury’s Town Plot Park and hoisted a stuffed hippopotamus toy in its place.
Thomas Phillips, a federal judge in Tennessee, declined to throw out the convictions of former University of Tennessee student David C. Kernell for hacking former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s email account during the 2008 presidential campaign.
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