Anna Burgese, 34, and her husband, Joseph, claim in a federal lawsuit seeking damages from Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide that the New Jersey woman was mistaken for a hooker in January in Miami Beach, Fla., and beaten up by actual prostitutes who saw her as competition in the W Hotel.
John Lawton, a 90-yearold pilot from Seville, Ohio, completed his birthday quest to fly 90 passes across the U.S.-Canadian border in his Cessna 172.
John Barnes Jr., a Democratic state lawmaker in Ohio, wants the state to provide years of relief payments and a free ride to college for three Cleveland women abducted and held in captivity for about a decade until their escape and rescue last month.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., whose state was the location of the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in which 20 children and six adults were killed, said he is “seriously considering” pressing for a fresh debate on gun control during the Senate’s consideration of legislation to revise U.S. immigration laws.
Randy “Duke” Cunningham, 71, the California Republican whose U.S. House career ended when he was convicted of accepting $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors, completed his prison sentence and was released from home confinement, said Chris Burke, a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Stefan Flueckinger, a Swiss diplomat stationed in Paris, was arrested after authorities say he drove his car at police officers as they attempted to stop him at a sobriety check in central Paris and an officer opened fire in self-defense, though no one was hurt.
Frank La Rue, a United Nations human-rights expert and a legal scholar from Guatemala, called for closer scrutiny of government wiretapping efforts around the world, saying most countries’ laws don’t properly protect free speech.
D. Andrew Beal, a Dallas banker and self-taught mathematician, is raising the ante to $1 million for whoever solves the so-called Beal Conjecture, a number-theory problem.
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, 69, a nine-term New York Democrat and one of Congress’ staunchest supporters of gun-control legislation, announced she has “a treatable form” of lung cancer and will be absent from the House of Representatives during her treatment.
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