LITTLE ROCK — Hamilton Smythe III
can rest a bit easier now that a bee colony estimated at between 40,000 and 60,000 bees has been removed from the walls of his Memphis home to be relocated to builder and bee hobbyist Tom Archer’s rural home near Marion, Ark., where he already keeps one colony.
Shawn Tyson, 17, was sentenced to life in prison after a Sarasota, Fla., jury convicted him of first-degree murder in the April 2011 shooting deaths of British tourists James Cooper, 25, and James Kouzaris, 24.
Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., was reprimanded for violating rules on wearing hats in the House chamber after he donned a hoodie during a speech on the House floor about the death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, saying, “Just because someone wears a hoodie does not make them a hoodlum.”
Shaul Mofaz, a former Israeli defense and military chief, won the leadership race for the Kadima Party, Israel’s largest political party, beating out the current chief, Tzipi Livni.
Clayton Osbon, a Jet-Blue Airways captain who sprinted through the cabin of a Las Vegas-bound flight screaming about terrorists, Jesus and 9/11 until he was tackled by passengers while the plane made an emergency landing in Amarillo, Texas, has been charged with interfering with a flight crew and has been suspended from duty.
Martha Johnston, whose 33-year-old horse fell neck-deep into a septic tank near her Portland, Ore., home, said she is grateful to a team of firefighters who rigged up a pulley system to rescue Roxy.
Sen. Scott Brown, RMass., a colonel in the Massachusetts Army National Guard, told The Boston Globe that he has transferred to a unit in Maryland, which will allow him to work as the assistant to Col. Christian Rofrano, the chief counsel of the National Guard Bureau, at the guard’s Pentagon office.
Joshua Jamone Morris, 25, a student at Louisiana’s Grambling State University, is being held in lieu of $10,000 bond over allegations he stole textbooks from a dormitory, fought a policeman who chased him down and kicked the officer in the groin after a second policeman hit him with a stun gun.
Binh Thai Luc, 35, who is accused of killing five people inside a San Francisco home, has been charged with five counts of murder with special circumstances of committing multiple murders, robbery and burglary.
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