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will appear on Florida’s ballots after the independent candidate, who is running for a seat in the 25th Congressional District, legally changed his name from Eddie Gonzalez to the website address.
Brian Brown, a California pilot who survived a weekend plane crash with his wife and daughter, told KTVB-TV in a telephone interview from a Boise, Idaho, hospital that he intentionally “belly-flopped” his small plane against a snowcovered mountainside after its wings iced up.
U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, a Texas Democrat, was defeated in the primary by Beto O’Rourke, 39, a former El Paso city councilman, with Reyes taking 10,663 votes to O’Rourke’s 12,639 in unofficial results with all 173 precincts reporting.
Nick Beheng, 31, who was launching fireworks from a hand-held mortar when it misfired, is in critical condition at a St. Paul, Minn., hospital after surgeons removed an unexploded firework from his chest.
Gov. Phil Bryant, RMiss., told high school students at American Legion Boys State in Hattiesburg that while he isn’t prepared to take any legal action to push prayer in schools, he does “think there is a way for us to have a nondenominational opening prayer when the opportunity is available to let people know there is a God.”
Michael S. Smith, 23, has been arrested on a vandalism charge after police in Huber Heights, Ohio, say he drove into a Taco Bell’s glass entrance with his truck because he was angry that he didn’t get a taco he ordered.
President Barack Obama
signed legislation renewing the charter of the Export-Import Bank for three years and increasing the bank’s lending cap to $140 billion from the current $100 billion.
John Davis, an Elyria, Ohio, man who said he was given a $344 littering ticket by a Cleveland police officer after the cash Davis handed to a panhandler in a wheelchair at a busy freeway interchange fell to the ground, has pleaded innocent to the misdemeanor and hopes a judge will toss out the ticket.
Jeremy C. Stein, a Harvard University economics professor and former Obama administration official, has been sworn in as the seventh member of the Federal Reserve board of governors, putting the panel at full strength for the first time since April 28, 2006.
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