LITTLE ROCK — Jesse Thorsen, 28, an Army Reserve soldier who went on national television in his military fatigues to endorse Rep. Ron Paul’s GOP presidential campaign after the Iowa caucuses, has had a letter of reprimand placed in his personnel file for violating Army policies that bar soldiers from participating in political events while in uniform, a spokesman said.
Kyle Dyer, a Denver news anchor who needed 90 stitches after she was bitten in the face by a dog on live TV last month, is to return to work next week.
Tim DeChristopher, 30, who was convicted of fraudulently bidding on drilling leases near Utah’s national parks to keep the parcels undeveloped, has been released from an isolation unit at a federal prison and placed back into a minimum-security camp, his lawyers said, adding that the activist got in trouble because he used the word “threaten” in an e-mail to supporters.
President Barack Obama
has signed a 90-day extension of a bill to extend the government’s authority to spend money on transportation programs and levy federal fuel taxes.
Theresa DeMarco, 56, and Mary Winchell, 36, who were pulled over for a loud muffler, were arrested after Bradenton, Fla., police discovered drugs in the car and Winchell admitted DeMarco was hiding drugs inside her dentures.
Sen. David Vitter, RLa., undermined public trust last year by blocking a salary increase for the interior secretary because Ken Salazar hadn’t issued six permits a month for new deep-water exploratory wells as Vitter wanted, but can’t be charged with rules violations because the situation was unprecedented, the Senate ethics committee said.
Allan Batchelor
has been charged in Clear Lake Shores, Texas, with misdemeanor online impersonation after police say he posted on his blog the e-mail address of a City Council candidate’s wife and invited people to send her viruses and spam.
Hector Pesquera, a former director of the FBI office based in Puerto Rico, has been nominated to lead the island’s Police Department, which U.S. Justice Department officials have accused of corruption.
Felipe Calderon, Mexico’s president, said in an interview on the Televisa network that he might work as a legal or political consultant after he leaves office Dec. 1.
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