Morgan Laskowski, 22, the bartender at the Jamison City Hotel in central Pennsylvania, was part of a team of four people who caught and helped a young bear that had been eluding state Game Commission employees for 11 days since it was first reported to have a plastic jar stuck over its head.
Brian DeMarco, 50, was arrested at a New Mexico Greyhound bus station after being accused of threatening to blow up the Albuquerque FBI field office with explosives folded into a burrito.
Danielle Powell, a 24-year-old Nebraska woman, is fighting a fundamentalist Christian college that’s insisting she repay $6,000 in federal student loans and grants because she didn’t complete her final semester after she was expelled from Grace University in Omaha because of a lesbian relationship.
Kate Middleton, 31, formally known as the Duchess of Cambridge, christened the new Royal Princess cruise ship, saying at the London event, “May God bless her and all who sail in her.”
Charlie Trotter, an award-winning Chicago chef, is being sued by two New York wine collectors who say he duped them into paying more than $46,000 for a bottle of wine that wasn’t what the label said it was.
Brenda Byrd, 54, and Sheila Joiner, 48, were charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor and allowing an unlicensed driver to operate a motor vehicle after a traffic stop in Kenner, La., revealed Byrd’s 10-year-old grandson to be behind the wheel because Byrd and Joiner were too intoxicated to drive, policesaid.
Howard Sattler, an Australian radio host, was fired after repeatedly asking Prime Minister Julia Gillard in an interview whether her domestic partner Tim Mathieson’s profession as a hairdresser meant he was homosexual.
William Barboza, a 22-year-old Connecticut man who wrote an obscenity-laced insult and “Tyranny” on his speeding-ticket payment form, is suing two police officers in Liberty, N.Y., saying his free-speech rights were violated when he was arrested over the obscenities.
Melanie Franke, the director of an upscale Austrian hotel, is seeking a modern-day court jester to entertain her guests for about $1,900 a month, noting that “jesters were a luxury that royal families indulged themselves in.”
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