LITTLE ROCK — James Klemovich, 76, a diabetic who also has a pacemaker and has undergone a triple bypass heart surgery, survived 10 days in the Nevada desert by melting snow to drink and using other skills he learned as a Boy Scout in an ordeal that saw his friend, Laszlo Szabo, 75, die after he left their stranded vehicle to find help.
Egle Vilmaite, manager of a Blackpool, Ireland, coffee shop, told RTE News that things were “really intense,” as keepers tried to wrangle an elephant that had bolted from a circus to avoid a bath and ended up outside his shop.
Clint Earl Sims
has been charged with burglary and vandalism after police say he appeared at the Madison County, Tenn., jail to turn himself in and when he discovered there weren’t any outstanding warrants for him, picked up a gumball vending machine in the jail lobby, carried it outside and used it to break out two windows.
The Dalai Lama, 76, the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, has been named the winner of the 2012 Templeton Prize and its $1.7 million award, for his work on science and religion.
Dick Fedorcio, Scotland Yard’s communications chief who hired Neil Wallis, the former News of the World executive later arrested on suspicion of breaking into voice mails, has resigned, making him the third senior police figure to part with his job over Britain’s phone hacking scandal.
Pal Schmitt, Hungary’s president whose dissertation on the modern Olympics has come under attack after an investigation found that large parts of his 1992 thesis were copied from other authors, saw his doctorate revoked by the Semmelweis University’s senate.
Gary May, the former superintendent of a West Virginia mine where an explosion in 2010 killed 29 workers, pleaded guilty in Beckley, W.Va., to a federal fraud charge.
Oscar Carrillo, who lied when he told 911 dispatchers he’d just been robbed at gunpoint by two men who fled with his computer and backpack, in a call that Pasadena, Calif., police contend set off a chain of events that led officers to shoot and kill a 19-year-old college student, has been arrested on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter.
Willie Nelson
plans to take in two malnourished horses rescued last month in Summerville, S.C., once the animals are strong enough to travel to the singer’s 700-acre ranch near Austin, Texas.
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