LITTLE ROCK — Gov. Rick Perry, a Texas Republican and 2012 presidential candidate, told two Florida news organizations that he has “no doubt” that President Barack Obama is an American citizen and said his recent comments that seemed to indicate otherwise were just him “having some fun with Donald Trump.”
Marni Kotak, 36, a performance artist who said giving birth is the “highest form of art,” gave birth to a 9-pound, 2-ounce boy inside a New York City art gallery, where she had set up a home-birth center, complete with a double bed and an inflatable birthing pool.
Dewayne Bunch, 49, a Kentucky GOP lawmaker who suffered a head injury in April while breaking up a fight at the high school where he teaches, is resigning his state House seat as he continues to undergo rehabilitation.
Ruth Madoff, the wife of financier Bernard Madoff, tells CBS’ 60 Minutes in an interview scheduled to air Sunday that the two of them tried to kill themselves after he admitted stealing billions of dollars in the largest Ponzi scheme in history, saying they took “a bunch of pills” including Ambien on Christmas Eve, but both woke up the next day.
Lt. Roland Chacon
said Orange County, Calif., sheriff’s deputies rescued a man stuck up to his chest inside a hollow tree trunk, adding that it’s a mystery why the man climbed into the hole near the base of the tree.
Scott Ritter, 50, a former United Nations weapons inspector who exchanged explicit online messages with a detective posing as a 15-year-old girl and then performed a sex act on himself in front of a webcam, was sentenced in Stroudsburg, Pa., to 18 months to 66 months in state prison.
Rep. John Olver, 75, a Massachusetts Democrat whose wife is battling cancer, said he will retire at the end of his term because of family circumstances.
Hughie Elbert Stover, 60, the former head of security at a West Virginia mine who was accused of impeding the investigation into a 2010 explosion that killed 29 men, has been convicted in Beckley of lying to investigators and of disposing of thousands of security-related documents after the blast.
George McGovern, 89, a former U.S. senator and the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate, is “feeling good now” and expects to be released soon from a South Dakota hospital where he’s being treated for exhaustion, said friend Jack Marsh.
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