Marco Antonio Delgado, a West Texas lawyer and former Carnegie Mellon University trustee, was found guilty of conspiring to launder hundreds of millions of dollars in drug money for a Mexican cartel and faces up to 20 years in prison.
Teresa Heinz Kerry, 75, the ketchup heiress and wife of Secretary of State John Kerry, has made a “miraculous” recovery from seizures in July that her doctors believe are the residual effects of a concussion she suffered in 2009, according to an interview given to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Casey Wagner, 31, an off-road racing enthusiast who survived being struck by lightning twice during the same storm in North Texas, says he believes that God kept him alive and he plans to start going to church more.
Marina Berlusconi, 47, Silvio Berlusconi’s eldest daughter, issued a statement denying “in the most forceful way” any intention of entering politics in Italy and said her “past, present and future” are at the Mediaset empire founded by her father, a three-time former premier.
Tony Abbott, the Australian prime minister, whose country is the largest provider of troops to the Afghanistan war outside NATO, made a surprise visit to the war zone to mark the impending end of Australia’s military involvement there, with most troops to be withdrawn by Christmas.
Rick Renzi, 55, a Republican who represented Arizona’s sprawling 1st Congressional District from 2003-09, was sentenced to three years in prison for convictions on public corruption, money laundering and other charges.
Gerard Richardson, 48, a New Jersey man imprisoned for nearly two decades in a murder for which the chief physical evidence was a bite mark later countered by DNA evidence, moved a step closer to freedom when a judge overturned his conviction and ordered him released on bond.
Emile Hirsch, the 28-year-old actor who has starred in such films as Into the Wild and Speed Racer, has been cast to play John Belushi in a bio-pic on the comedian, one of the original Saturday Night Live cast members, who died at the age of 33 in 1982.
Amanda Hein, 26, of Allentown, Pa., was ordered to stand trial on a criminal homicide count, accused of giving birth in a sports bar bathroom, wrapping the newborn in a plastic bag and hiding him in a toilet tank.
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