Daniel “Boone” Fuller, 50, who had been sitting atop a St. Louis billboard since July 9 after vowing he would stay up there until the city went a week without a homicide, has climbed down from his perch, even though two killings on Sunday morning left him a few hours from a full slaying-free week.
Elizabeth Enderli, 31, a Texas woman who erroneously believed her weapons permit covered her visit to New York from the Houston area, was arrested at the Sept. 11 memorial in New York City and charged with criminal possession of a weapon after she informed a police officer she had the two handguns in her backpack and asked where she could store them.
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., presented a Bronze Star medal to Patricia Spier, 70, for her father, Technical Sgt. Walter Wojcik, who was killed in action on July 7, 1944, in Normandy, France, two months before Spier was born.
Sumitra Mahajan, speaker of India’s Parliament, said she has barred 25 opposition legislators from its sessions for the rest of the week for causing “grave disorder” after they created noisy scenes.
James Cunningham, the owner of a year-old Galveston, Texas, beach bar called Hemingway’s, said he has to come up with a new name for his place after attorneys for the holders of the Ernest Hemingway trademark demanded a licensing fee if he wanted to continue using the famous author’s name.
Rep. Chaka Fattah, 58, a Pennsylvania Democrat who was indicted last week and accused of engaging in bribery, fraud, money laundering and other crimes involving hundreds of thousands of dollars, said he is “innocent” and plans to run for re-election next year.
Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s opposition leader, visited an area afflicted by flooding that has killed at least 46 people in the country and handed over donations of rice and drinking water on behalf of a foundation named for her late mother, a former diplomat.
Matthew Moore, 80, of Birmingham, Ala., has been charged with murder in the slaying of his daughter, Chrystol Moore, 37, who police say was shot multiple times after she refused to buy her father alcohol.
Brooke Adams, a spokesman for the Utah Department of Corrections, said 42 inmates, all of them documented gang members, are participating in a hunger strike at Utah State Prison in protest of housing conditions and the relocation of gang leaders.