Jane Richard, a 7-year-old girl who lost part of her left leg in the Boston Marathon bombings, which killed her 8-year-old brother and two others, is learning to use a prosthetic leg and “struts around on it with great pride,” her family said.
Irina Walker, 60, the third daughter of former Romanian King Michael, has pleaded innocent to charges that she was operating a cockfighting business with her husband, a former Oregon sheriff’s deputy, at their ranch in eastern Oregon, an operation authorities said pulled in as much as $2,000 a day.
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, 50, a first-term Republican, said he will sign a bill easing access to medical marijuana for children as long as state lawmakers reintroduce a requirement that parents get three doctors’ notes before a child enters the program.
James Bagarozzo, a former parking-meter mechanic in Buffalo, N.Y., was sentenced to 2 ½ years in prison for an eight-year scheme in which he stole $210,000 in quarters, storing them in a bag in his truck before rolling and cashing them in at banks.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s 59-year-old prime minister who had not been seen in public for nearly a week, denied Turkish media reports that he had been hospitalized, saying, “I just rested for a few days.”
Abby Wetherell, 12, who survived a black bear attack in northern Michigan by screaming for help and then playing dead, was doing well after surgery for her injuries, said her grandfather, David Wetherell, who added, “We’re very proud of the way she handled herself.”
Roy Main, a Rhode Island doctor charged with breaking and entering after walking through a stranger’s home at 4 a.m., said he made “an honest mistake” while trying to check on a patient who lived in the area, but he understands why the homeowners “freaked out.”
Danny Seaman, an Israeli official involved in government public relations, was suspended over Facebook comments in which he said he was “sick” of “self-righteous” Japanese commemorations for victims of the WWII bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which he called “the consequence of Japanese aggression.”
Matthew Bergeron of Richmondville, N.Y., who was wanted on a probation violation, was caught after a state police investigator spotted the 23-year-old parking crookedly at a truck stop, authorities said.
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