LITTLE ROCK — Joaquin Amador Serrapio Jr ., 20, a Miami-Dade College student who told investigators he was just trying to get a reaction from President Barack Obama’s supporters when he posted messages on Facebook, including “Who wants to help me assassinate Obummer while hes at UM this week?”, has pleaded guilty in Miami to threatening to kill or harm the president.
Jerald Reiter, 56, a Cascade, Iowa, man who was stopped outside a Dubuque bar with a small zebra and a parrot in his truck, has been charged with drunken driving.
Ted Kaczynski, who graduated from Harvard University in 1962 and went on to terrorize the nation with deadly bombs between 1978 and 1995 as the Unabomber, submitted an update for a Harvard alumni directory, listing his occupation as “prisoner” and his awards as “eight life sentences,” Harvard said as fellow alumni prepared to attend their 50th class reunion.
Martha Stewart
has been named nonexecutive chairman of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., the lifestyle, media and merchandising company she created.
Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney in Chicago who oversaw the convictions of former Illinois Govs. Rod Blagojevich and George Ryan, former Vice President Dick Cheney’s top aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby and media mogul Conrad Black, has announced he is stepping down after 24 years as a prosecutor.
Patrick Marshall, 53, who was caught trying to climb Mount Rushmore National Memorial, has pleaded guilty in South Dakota to federal charges of trespass and failing to obey a lawful order.
Florence Fiedler, 81, of New Canaan, Conn., has filed suit against Yale-New Haven Hospital, contending that she suffered hip and collarbone fractures and a traumatic head injury when she fell off an operating table in 2010 after surgery to implant a pacemaker.
John Brek, an ex-security guard at Newark Liberty International Airport accused of discussing in 2009 how easy it would be to shoot President Barack Obama at the airport, can get his gun collection back, a New Jersey appeals court has ruled.
Jeremy Browne, Britain’s Foreign Office minister, said in a written response to a parliamentary query that world leaders linked to human-rights abuses will be banned from traveling to the U.K. for the London Olympics this year.
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