LITTLE ROCK — Rep. Rick Lazio, a New York Republican who lost his party’s primary to Carl Paladino but remained on the ballot as the Conservative Party’s candidate for New York governor, has dropped out of the race, leaving Paladino as Democrat Andrew Cuomo’s main opponent, but declined to endorse his former GOP opponent.
Charles Anderson, of Guthrie, Okla., has claimed a winning $200,000 Powerball ticket and said he plans to pay off his debts and maybe buy a riding lawn mower.
Anitra Hankins
has been charged with attempted homicide and torture after Modesto, Calif., police say she tied up and stabbed her 13-year-old autistic son, who underwent surgery and remains hospitalized in critical condition.
Max Weinberg, the longtime band leader for Conan O’Brien as well as the drummer for Bruce Springsteen’s E-Street Band, won’t be joining the comedian on Conan, his new late night program set to debut on TBS in November.
Vice President Joe Biden
said during a campaign stop for Democrats in New Hampshire that it is time for the party’s base to “stop whining,” adding: “This president has done an incredible job. He’s kept his promises.”
Glen McDaniel, 25, a Philadelphia tow-truck driver, faces murder, drunken driving and other charges in the death of driver Ray Santiago, who authorities say McDaniel ran over at a gas station with his wrecker in a territory feud between rival companies.
Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi, spokesman for Iran’s judiciary, said a court has dissolved the Islamic Iran Participation Front and the Islamic Revolution Mujahedin Organization, both pro-reform political parties that supported reformist Mir Hossein Mousavi in the disputed 2009 presidential election.
Wyclef Jean, 37, the hip-hop singer who was disqualified from running for president of Haiti, has been hospitalized at an undisclosed location, said representative Marian Salzman, adding that Jean was “suffering from stress and fatigue based on the grueling eight weeks he’s had.”
Queen Rania
of Jordan underwent a nonsurgical procedure called a catheter ablation, in which doctors inserted a catheter into a blood vessel and used an electric current to restore a normal heart rhythm, in New York City, the palace said, adding that she is “well” and in “good spirits.”
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