LITTLE ROCK — Jay Garfield
and Jim Henle, professors at Smith College, played a trick to liven up their introductory class in logic, but their hoax that the Massachusetts campus was going vegetarian and would only buy food from local growers sparked protests at the women’s college and even got the two pranksters fired - although the latter was just President Carol Christ’s little joke.
Andy Rooney, 92, the longtime 60 Minutes essayist, is in stable condition at an undisclosed hospital after developing complications after minor surgery last week, CBS said.
Lt. Jesse Reynolds, director of a drug task force, said the confiscated writings of a jail inmate in Clarksville, Tenn., led agents to 32 marijuana plants after a deputy realized the inmate had provided detailed directions to several growing operations, adding: “It was like being a little kid and trying to decipher a treasure map.”
Darren Wesley Huff, 41, of Dallas, Ga., was convicted in Knoxville, Tenn., of carrying a firearm in interstate commerce with the intent to use it in a civil disorder in what authorities said was a plot to take over a Tennessee courthouse and force President Barack Obama out of office.
James Krumnow, an Elmore, Ohio, city councilman, may be taking sibling rivalry to a new level as he runs for mayor against his younger brother, Lowell Krumnow, who happens to be the incumbent.
Michelle Obama
called a Chicago Walgreens store that has expanded to include fresh produce and grocery staples an example for other parts of the city and the country, saying: “We can talk all we want about making healthy choices about the food we serve our kids, but the truth is that if parents don’t have anywhere to buy these foods, then all of that is really just talk.”
Kevin Joseph O’Connell, 47, pleaded guilty in Marin County, Calif., to threatening a public official, a misdemeanor, for making death threats against Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.
Catilyn Abercrombie, 15, a North Carolina high school student who was shot in the neck, has been downgraded to critical condition, police said, adding that she is using a ventilator to breathe and may require a second surgery.
Towanda Rogers, 21, a Missouri woman who admitted leaving her newborn daughter in a trash can, has been sentenced to a year in jail.
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