LITTLE ROCK — Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff who is considering a run for mayor of Chicago, isn’t having any luck persuading the tenants renting his home on the city’s North Side to move out, said his spokesman Rick Jasculca.
Devon Byrd, 12, needed 53 stitches in his feet, legs and wrist after he kicked out a bedroom window so he and his 6-year-old brother Andon could escape a fire that consumed their family’s mobile home in Atoka, Tenn., and killed their mother, her boyfriend, their two young half sisters and the girls’ grandmother.
President Barack Obama
said in response to a question in New Mexico that he is “a Christian by choice” because the “precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life I would want to lead,” adding that his “family didn’t. Frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week.”
Mary Evano
pleaded guilty in Boston to fraud, conspiracy and other counts, admitting that she and her husband intentionally ate glass particles, then submitted false insurance claims to collect more than $200,000.
Ernest Pullen, 57, a Bonne Terre, Mo., man who won $1 million with a “100 Million Dollar Blockbuster” Scratchers ticket in June, apparently has Lady Luck on his side as Missouri Lottery officials announced that Pullen won $2 million with a “Mega Monopoly” Scratchers ticket.
Dmitry Medvedev, president of Russia, fired Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, in office 18 years, and cited a “loss of confidence” in him as the reason for the dismissal.
Octavio Garcia Von Borstel, 29, the mayor of Nogales, Ariz., has been arrested by FBI agents on multiple charges including bribery, theft, fraud and money laundering and his father, Octavio Suarez Garcia, 59, also was arrested and charged, said state Attorney General Terry Goddard.
William Peskin, police chief in Elmwood Place, Ohio, said two men were injured when a birthday party for a 3-year-old girl turned into a brawl as guests threw broken beer bottles and punches, adding that no charges have been filed but four men were being questioned by officers.
Hossein Derakhshan, 35, an Iranian-Canadian and the founder of one of the first Farsi-language blogs, has been sentenced in Tehran to 19 years in prison for his writings, many of which were critical of Iran’s clerical leadership.
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