LITTLE ROCK — Mike Overby, an organizer of the annual Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, in Reno, Nev., said a war shirt worn by Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce American Indian tribe that can be seen in a painting in the Smithsonian Institution sold for $877,500.
Elizabeth Farnam, 33, of Granby, Mo., whose 22-month-old son died of a methadone overdose, faces charges of second-degree murder on accusations that she lost a pill she had obtained illegally for herself, and the boy, who sat in her lap during church, found it and ate it.
Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s newly elected president, said at a celebration of the 60th anniversary of the revolution that overthrew Egypt’s monarchy and led to decades of military rule that the 1952 overthrow failed to ring in democracy, but last year’s uprising has corrected the path.
Jacques Rogge of Belgium, president of the International Olympic Committee, rejected calls for a special observance at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics in London to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the murder of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches by Palestinian gunmen at the 1972 Munich games.
Grady Brown, 34, a former math teacher and wrestling coach at an Ocean Springs, Miss., middle school, has pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual battery stemming from accusations that he had sex with a then-13-year-old girl over a three month period in 2011.
Queen Sirikit, 79, of Thailand was ordered by doctors to rest after an exam administered a day after she felt dizzy and staggered while walking for exercise showed she had a slight shortage of blood in her brain but no hemorrhaging.
Kristine Nepomuceno said she initially cried when doctors at a Nashville hospital said they couldn’t release her in time for her nuptials after an unexpected emergency-room trip, but her fiance moved their ceremony to the hospital’s chapel and they were wed only an hour later than they had planned in what she called a “fairytale wedding.”
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