Sandra Day O’Connor, the retired Supreme Court justice, officiated at a same-sex wedding at the Supreme Court in Washington, at least the second such ceremony at the court since its June decision that expanded federal recognition of same-sex marriage.
Charlie Collier, the president of the cable channel AMC, announced that The Walking Dead, the highly rated zombie-apocalypse drama now in its fourth season, will continue for at least a fifth season.
Tony Caulder, 51, of Kennebunk, Maine, was accused of operating a vehicle while under the influence after convenience store employees refused to sell him beer because they thought he was drunk and called police when he rode off on a lawn mower.
Rick Perry, the Republican governor of Texas, presented the state’s highest military decoration, the Texas Legislative Medal of Honor, to the late World War II hero Audie Murphy, one of the most decorated soldiers in U.S. history.
Pavel Dmitrichenko, a Bolshoi ballet dancer who is accused of ordering a Jan. 17 acid attack on Sergei Filin, the company’s ballet chief, pleaded innocent as his trial began in Moscow.
Banksy, the elusive British graffiti artist who has been writing and spray painting images on New York City buildings, condemned on his website the design of the new World Trade Center, saying in an essay that the 104-story skyscraper “clearly proclaims the terrorists won” as he included a picture of the tower with the words “ replace with better artwork.”
Fred Galante, the attorney for the Southern California city of Irwindale, home of the maker of Sriracha hot sauce, said the chili odor emanating from the Huy Fong Foods plant is a public nuisance and the city filed a lawsuit seeking to stop production.
Rocio Hernandez Perez, 23, who was brought into the U.S. illegally as child and who surrendered to U.S. authorities at the border during a protest, has been deported to Mexico City, U.S. immigration officials said.
Caroline Biden, 26, Vice President Joe Biden’s niece who was arrested in New York City after her roommate filed a report about a rent dispute, hit a police officer in the chest and resisted being put in a cell during her arrest, according to a court complaint.
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