Ted Nugent, the progun rock musician who campaigned this week with Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, a Republican who is running for governor, apologized on WBAP Radio in Dallas for calling President Barack Obama a “subhuman mongrel” last month and said he should have called Obama “violator of his Constitution, the liar that he is.”
Kayla Michelle Finley, 27, a Pickens, S.C., woman who spent a night in jail, accused of failing to return the movie Monster-in-Law nearly a decade ago to Dalton Videos, saw her case dropped after the defunct store’s owner decided not to pursue the charge because of the media attention that the arrest received.
Mel Reynolds, 62, a former Democratic congressman from Illinois, saw a Zimbabwean magistrate dismiss charges of possessing pornography and was ordered to pay a fine or face jail time after pleading guilty to charges of violating the country’s immigration laws.
Matteo Renzi, 39, leader of Italy’s center-left Democratic Party, will be sworn in as Italy’s youngest-ever prime minister today.
President Barack Obama will award the Medal of Honor to 24 Army veterans after a congressionally mandated review to ensure that eligible recipients were not bypassed due to prejudice.
Princess Madeleine of Sweden, who is married to American banker Christopher O’Neill, gave birth to a daughter in New York City, the couple’s first child, Sweden’s Royal Palace said.
Ron Calderon, a Democratic state senator in California, and his brother, Tom, a former state lawmaker who now works as a lobbyist, face multiple charges of bribery and cover-ups announced by federal law enforcement authorities who say the lawmaker took $100,000 in cash bribes plus plane trips, golf trips and gourmet meals.
Matt Carlson, the police chief in Sugarcreek Borough, Pa., said Salvation Army workers found a large plastic bag of marijuana among some donated clothes and that it wasn’t the first time officers have investigated an unusual item among donated clothing, saying, “We’ve had guns … cash … rings, and now marijuana.”
Rick Raemisch, Colorado’s new Corrections Department director, is promising to change solitary-confinement policies after spending the night in an isolated cell, writing in a New York Times op-ed that the experiment left him “feeling twitchy and paranoid.”
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