Mitt Romney, the ex-presidential candidate, is building a 5,900-square-foot house in Utah with a study where a bookcase swivels open and leads into a hidden room with cabinets designated for office storage, according to architecture plans obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune.
George Zimmerman, who was acquitted earlier this year in the 2012 fatal shooting of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin, will not face criminal charges in a dispute last month with his estranged wife, said a police spokesman in Lake Mary, Fla.
Mazen Alotaibi, 24, a Saudi air force sergeant, was convicted of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy at a Las Vegas Strip hotel on New Year’s Eve and could face a sentence of 35 years to life in prison.
Tom Hardy, the 36-year old British actor known for his role as the terrorist Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, will play Elton John in a bio-pic titled Rocketman set to begin shooting late next year, Focus Features announced.
Matthew Cordle, 22, was sentenced in Ohio to 6½ years in prison for causing a fatal wrong-way crash after a night of heavy drinking in June, which he had confessed to in an online video.
U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., responded “if the hood fits, wear it,” after Republicans faulted a fundraising email he sent that has a photo depicting a burning cross with Ku Klux Klan members in white robes in the background and the words “Tea Party” appearing on the image, with the burning cross serving as the letter “T.”
Heidi Fleiss, 47, the former Hollywood madam, was arrested in Nevada on suspicion of driving under the influence of marijuana, her second marijuana-related run-in with the law in the past three months.
Deirdre Romine, 38, a western Ohio woman who said she stole $2.87 in change from the Logan County Courthouse fountain to buy food and was charged with petty theft, has benefited from donors’ generosity in the form of $14,000 in online donations, according to WBNS-TV and the Bellefontaine Examiner.
Billy Baeder, 39, of Royersford, Pa., owns a 1933 $10 silver certificate, purchased by his father two dozen years ago for about the price of a compact car, that an auctioneer says is worth today at least a half-million dollars.
Nir Barkat, the secular mayor of Jerusalem, won a second term with 51 percent of the vote while 45 percent went to rightist challenger Moshe Lion.
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