LITTLE ROCK — Melissa McCormack, director of operations at San Juan Hills Golf Club, said it was definitely a first for the Southern California course when a 2-pound leopard shark dropped out of the sky and landed at the 12th tee, adding that employees rescued the shark, which was bleeding and was likely a bird’s prey, and put it into some “homemade seawater” before taking it back to the ocean.
Sandra Day O’Connor, 82, who retired from the U.S. Supreme Court in 2006, is back on the bench, at least for a few days, as part of a panel of the federal appeals court in Manhattan.
Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and current Fox News talk show host, has made a television ad, which will begin airing today, in support of Rep. Todd Akin, a Missouri Republican who is challenging Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, Akin’s campaign said.
Rodrigo Duterte, the vice mayor of Davao City, Philippines, has offered a $121,000 reward for the decapitated head of Ryan Yu, the accused leader of a gang of car thieves, as well as lesser amounts for Yu’s mere capture or death.
Bladimir Barreto, 19, is recovering at a Melbourne, Fla., hospital after a botched attempt to jump over a moving car in Palm Bay, a stunt that police said Barreto was attempting for a video to show his athletic prowess to college football recruiters.
Tomasz Siemoniak, Poland’s defense minister, said a tank with “historic and sentimental value” because it was used by Poland in its 1920 war against the Bolshevik Red Army has been returned from Afghanistan, where it was serving as a decoration at the Defense Ministry.
Christopher Cormier, 31, and his twin brother, William, have been charged in Pensacola, Fla., in the murder of Sean Dugas, 30, a former Pensacola News Journal reporter whose body was found buried in concrete in Georgia.
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