LITTLE ROCK — Ken Henderson, 49, who managed to swim to a natural-gas rig more than 30 hours after his fishing boat sank in the Gulf of Mexico, told the Conroe Courier that “hypothermia set in after a few hours” for his friend, Ed Coen, 48, leaving him unable to “swim anymore” and forcing Henderson to cut the string that connected the life jackets of the two men.
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and David Malboeuf, cousins accused of accidentally causing the largest wildfire in Arizona history, pleaded guilty in federal magistrate court in Flagstaff to a pair of misdemeanor charges.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, speaking in Newville, Ala., at the funeral for his 87-year-old mother, Ada Essie Sharpton, said, “The journey of her existence was the journey of this country,” pointing to racial segregation at her birth compared with her death when “the first black president of the United States sent a letter to her funeral.”
Rep. Charles Rangel, DN.Y., has been fined $23,000 by the Federal Election Commission over his use of a rent-controlled apartment as a campaign office, one of the ethics violations that led to his 2010 House censure.
Brandon Lee Price, 28, who has been listed since June 2010 as absent without leave from the Army, is in federal custody in Pennsylvania over allegations he tried to defraud Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
Pal Schmitt, Hungary’s president, directly copied several pages from one publication and borrowed heavily from another one, but identified those publications in the bibliography of his 1992 dissertation, which fulfilled the University of Physical Education’s requirements at the time, according to a committee that investigated the purported plagiarism.
Ashton Phelps Jr ., 66, publisher of The Times-Picayune in New Orleans for more than 30 years, announced he is retiring later this year and will be succeeded by Mobile Press-Register publisher Ricky Mathews.
Michael Pena, an offduty New York City police officer accused of sexually assaulting a schoolteacher, has been convicted of criminal sex act and some counts of predatory sexual assault, and jurors have been told to keep deliberating on some unresolved counts, including rape.
Bob Carr, Australia’s foreign minister, said the country will give $1.7 million more to Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge tribunal, raising Australia’s total donations to $19.3 million since 2006.
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