LITTLE ROCK — Clay Logan, who has been handling the New Year’s Eve possum drop in Brasstown, N.C., for years, said he will use a substitute this year after People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sued to stop the event, adding that he’s considering putting a stuffed animal or roadkill in the see-through box that is covered with tinsel and lowered to the ground at midnight.
Donald Blood III, 55, of Marlborough, Mass., faces a drunken-driving charge in Dorset, Vt., police said, after driving onto the lawn of a historic home once owned by Bill Wilson, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Gov. Mark Dayton, 65, of Minnesota, had spinal surgery to relieve a constriction in his lower back, known as stenosis, said spokesman Kathleen Tinucci, adding that Dayton was to be released in a few days.
Rep. Edward Markey, 66, has become the first Massachusetts Democrat to announce his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat that would open if the current occupant, John Kerry, is confirmed as secretary of state.
Nouel Alba, 37, was charged in Hartford, Conn., over allegations she posed as the aunt of a child killed in the Newtown school shooting and used her Facebook account, telephone calls and text messages to seek donations for what she called a “funeral fund.”
Jim McGrath, a spokesman for former President George H.W. Bush, who isin intensive care at a Houston hospital, said the Bush family has asked for privacy and he will issue another statement “when events warrant it.”
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