LITTLE ROCK — Darren Julien, a celebrity auctioneer, said that as part of his “Music Icons” auction next month he is selling Elvis Presley’s original crypt, where Presley was interred alongside his mother, Gladys, after he died Aug. 16, 1977, until both of them were reburied two months later at his Graceland home.
Nelson Mandela, 93, South Africa’s former president and a Nobel peace laureate who spent 27 years in prison for fighting apartheid, is leaving Johannesburg to take up residence in his eastern home village of Qunu, where he will stay indefinitely, said President Jacob Zuma.
Miguel Abeyta, 72, punched and tripped Paul Santillanes at a store in Albuquerque, N.M., when, police said, Santillane attempted to grab the purse from the arm of Abeyta’s wife, Romie.
Lisa Raitt, Canada’s labor minister, said legislation has been introduced to force striking Canadian Pacific Railway workers back to their jobs after talks stalled over the weekend, telling Parliament: “The strike can’t go on. We need to get the trains running again.”
Eric Simons, 20, creator of the Internet startup Class-Connect that helps teachers create and share lesson plans, spent two months secretly living at the Palo Alto, Calif., office of AOL Inc. after he ran out of money to pay for rent, saying: “To put the odds in your favor, you’ve got to use all of the resources you can. You have to figure outways of staying alive.”
Robert A. Ormsbee of Ocean Springs, Miss., has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of possession of child pornography.
The Rev. Oliver White, 69, pastor at Grace Community United Church of Christ, who watched most of his congregation leave after he voiced his support for same sex marriage, has raised $13,000 of the $200,000 he needs to raise by June 30 to pay off a loan and keep the St. Paul., Minn., church open.
Guy Ryder, a former trade union leader from Britain, has been elected as the new director general of the U.N. International Labor Organization, which is responsible for overseeing international labor standards.
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