LITTLE ROCK — Katie Medley, who went with her husband to a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colo., as a last date before they would become parents, has given birth to a son, Hugo Jackson Medley, at University of Colorado Hospital while Caleb Medley lies in a medically induced coma after being shot at the theater.
Wylma Cook, 72, who was baby-sitting her granddaughters, Lyric Cook-Morrissey, 10, and Elizabeth Collins, 8, in Evansdale, Iowa, when the two cousins disappeared after going for a bike ride, said she doesn’t know how their bikes ended up a mile away at Meyers Lake, adding: “The girls never rode that far, never.”
Amanda Clayton, 24, a Detroit-area woman who collected welfare despite winning a $735,000 lottery prize, has been sentenced tonine months of probation.
Phil Douglass
of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources said the man spotted dressed in a goat suit among a herd of wild goats in the mountains of northern Utah has been identified as a hunter who was preparing for a mountain-goat hunt in Canada next year.
Lee Myung-bak, president of South Korea, issued a nationally televised apology after his elder brother and two former aides were arrested on bribery charges.
Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, and Council Speaker Christine Quinn said the city has reaped $259 million of economic benefits from same-sex marriages in the first year since the practice was legalized, adding that at least 8,200 gay-marriage licenses were issued, more than 10 percent of the 75,000 wedding licenses the city issued last year.
Gabrielle Giffords, the Arizona Democrat who resigned her congressional seat to recover from a gunshot wound in her head, enjoyed a cable-car ride in the French Alps, part of a visit to the European Center for Nuclear Research with her astronaut husband, Mark Kelly, and his daughter, Claire.
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