LITTLE ROCK — Karen Klein, 68, a Greece, N.Y., school-bus monitor who was shown in a video being relentlessly bullied by a group of boys, said she will retire, adding that she “enjoyed working with the kids” and isn’t “quitting because of what happened” but because she has decided it’s “time to leave.”
Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon. com, and his wife, MacKenzie, have agreed to donate $2.5 million to support a same-sex marriage referendum in Washington state.
Kristen Siebeneicher, spokesman for Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, N.J., said a boy suffered minor injuries after he was hit in the face by a small bird while riding the 45-story Kingda Ka roller coaster.
Jim Walton, 54, said he is stepping down as president of CNN at the end of the year after almost a decade in the job, saying the cable news channel “needs new thinking,” which “starts with a new leader who brings a different perspective, different experiences and a new plan.”
David Hernandez, 31, has been sentenced to a month in jail for contempt of court after he disrupted a Missouri courtroom proceeding and then flipped off Judge Todd Thornhill as he left the courtroom.
Col. Timothy Wagoner, an Air Force chaplain, has left the Southern Baptist Convention after the conservative denomination publicly questioned his attendance at a samesex civil union ceremony at his base in New Jersey, and is now affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.
Dan Malloy, governor of Connecticut, “pardoned” a 15-pound lobster about to be served up for lunch at Abbott’s Lobster in Noank and then released the crustacean into the Mystic River.
Ivica Dacic, who served as Slobodan Milosevic’s spokesman during the Balkan wars, has been sworn in as prime minister of Serbia.
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