LITTLE ROCK — John Glenn, 89, former astronaut and U.S. senator, said NASA should keep flying the soon-to-be-retired shuttle fleet until a reliable replacement is ready, asking The Associated Press, “We have a vehicle here, why throw it away?”
Tony Peacock
of Siler City, N.C., belted out the George Gershwin tune “Summertime” to win the 42nd annual National Hollerin’ Contest, in which participants competed in several categories, including the men’s national hollerin’ contest, ladies callin’, conch shell blowin’, whistlin’, and junior and teen hollerin’.
Luke Jerram, a British artist, took his public art project to New York City, scattering 60 pianos across the Big Apple, including in Times Square, a traffic triangle in the East Village and Battery Park, so amateur musicians could play their favorite tunes.
Vanessa Joy Long, 39, pleaded guilty to breaking into a Christchurch, New Zealand home, eating some food, drinking some alcohol, trying on clothes and then passing out in bed, which is where the owner found her before he called the police.
Shannon Damnavits, spokesman for the Northern California Pirate Festival in Vallejo, Calif., said festival goers aimed to enter the Guiness Book of World Records for assembling the most costumed pirates in one place with nearly 2,300 buccaneers.
Sholom Rubashkin, 51, former vice president of a Postville, Iowa, kosher meatpacking plant where authorities detained 389 workers as illegal aliens, was sentenced to 27 years in prison and ordered to pay $27 million in restitution for deceiving the firm’s lenders with fake profits.
Nicolas Cocaign, 39, admitted at trial to suffocating his cellmate in prison in Rouen, France, with a plastic bag and eating part of the man’s left lung, mistakenly believing it to be his heart.
Jon Venables, 27, who was convicted of murdering a toddler in 1993, when he himself was just 10 years old, has been charged at London’s Central Criminal Court with downloading and distributing indecent photographs of children.
Maya Angelou, 82, of Winston-Salem, N.C., asked fans of her poetry to contact artist David Ilan and ask to have a small dot represent each of them in a pointillism portrait of Michael Jackson that will use 1 million tiny dots to make a larger image of the late singer.
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