LITTLE ROCK — Precious Allen, 31, of Cincinnati has been charged with felonious assault and aggravated criminal trespass over allegations that she and Dawn Brunner, 28, who was charged with criminal trespass, barged into a high school classroom where Allen then helped her daughter, 14, beat up another teen.
Dick Cheney, the former vice president, told CBS This Morning that President Barack Obama’s use of unmanned drones to target terrorists abroad is “a good policy” that doesn’t need “checks and balances,” adding that Obama “is getting paid to make difficult, difficult decisions.”
Theresa Moran Camera, 46, of Lancaster, Pa., has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child over allegations that she allowed her 3-year-old son to help pump gas, and the childsprayed fuel onto himself.
Eric Smith, general manager at WNMU, one of two Michigan television stations where hackers broke into the Emergency Alert System and ran messages warning of zombies “rising from their graves” and “attacking the living,” said equipment changes have been made to prevent future such incidents.
Camilla Long, a critic for Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper, has been named winner of the Hatchet Job of the Year Award for her review of Rachel Cusk’s Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation, a divorce memoir that Long described as “acres of poetic whimsy and vague literary blah.”
Jennifer Kirkland
has told television’s Dr. Phil McGraw that her 6-yearold son, Ethan, who was held hostage for days in an underground bunker inAlabama, saw officers fatally shoot his kidnapper, Jimmy Lee Dykes, 65.
Geralyn Graham, 67, has been sentenced in Miami to 55 years in prison for kidnapping and abusing Rilya Wilson, a foster child who is believed to be dead and whose disappearance in December 2000 wasn’t noticed for 15 months after a Department of Children and Families caseworker neglected to check on the girl in person as required.
Queen Elizabeth II
is Britian’s most powerful woman, according to the BBC radio program Women’s Hour.
Fidel Castro, 86, the retired president of Cuba, bemoaned the pitfalls of aging during an interview with state-run daily Granma, saying his knee still bothers him after a fall in 2004 and his failing eyesight makes it a struggle to read the paper.
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