LITTLE ROCK — Craig Callen, a Mansfield, Ohio, dentist, is offering to buy kids’ trick-ortreat candy this Halloween for $1 per pound, with a 5-pound limit per child, and is throwing in toothbrushes to sweeten the deal.
Pope Benedict XVI
named three new saints for the Catholic Church during a Mass in St. Peter’s Square that was interrupted by a man who climbed out onto the upper colonnade, shouted, “Pope, where is Christ?” and burned a Bible.
Rep. Michele Bachmann
of Minnesota, a Republican presidential candidate, said Iraq should repay the U.S. for the war that cost $800 billion, telling CBS’ Face the Nation that “They are not a poor country. They’re a wealthy country.”
Vice President Joe Biden
said voters in thenext presidential election will face a choice on which political party offers “a better path” to “get the economy moving,” adding, “When people begin to focus, I think the choice is going to become awfully clear.”
Steven Hayes, a Connecticut man convicted in a 2007 home invasion that killed a woman and her two daughters, bragged in a letter from prison that he has killed 17 people, and disparaged his accomplice, Joshua Komisarjevsky, as “not even worthy” of his partnership, the New Haven Register reported.
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the French first lady, has gone home from a Paris clinic with her newborn daughter, Giulia, the first baby born to a sitting French president, Nicolas Sarkozy.
Kizza Besigye, the leader of Uganda’s main opposition party, appealed to local and international human-rights groups to “rescue” him from being confined to his home after an arrest, saying there are more than 100 officers surrounding his home and he is running short of food.
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., has gone to Asheville, N.C., for two weeks of intensive therapy sessions as she continues to recover from a gunshot wound to her head suffered Jan. 8 in Tucson.
President Felipe Calderon
of Mexico signed a decree tightening regulations on day-care centers two years after a fire at a center in the northern state of Sonora killed 49 children and hurt 70, and said the rules aim to prevent a recurrence of “the most terrible of tragedies” by disallowing centers within 50 yards of a business or facility that poses a fire hazard.
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