Louis Mitchell Jr., 34, was charged with auto theft, forgery and other offenses after being accused of using a stolen tow truck to take cars abandoned on roadsides in Atlanta during last week’s winter storm.
Zenko Hrynkiw of Birmingham, Ala., walked about 8 miles in a snowstorm to Trinity Medical Center, where he is the only neurosurgeon, to perform a life-saving emergency surgery on a patient who suffered a traumatic brain injury.
Bassem Youssef, an Egyptian satirist who is often compared to U.S. comedian Jon Stewart and who had his show canceled by the Egyptian CBC network last fall, has signed a contract with a Dubai-based TV network that will begin airing new episodes of his show this week.
Gov. Rick Scott of Florida issued an executive order setting June 24 as the date for a special election to fill the seat left vacant by former U.S. Rep. Trey Radel, a Republican, who resigned after pleading guilty to cocaine possession.
Rob Ford, the mayor of Toronto who made headlines last year after he admitted to having smoked crack cocaine while in a drunken stupor, received a jaywalking ticket in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he was attending the funeral of a friend’s mother.
George Washington Crane V, 48, the son of a former Illinois congressman, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for selling oxycodone pills to high school students and recent high school graduates in Loudoun County, Va., over several years.
Supoj Saplom, the former secretary of Thailand’s Transport Ministry, had more than $1.4 million in assets seized by the country’s Civil Court under anti-corruption laws that allow the seizure of assets from officials who are judged to be “unusually wealthy” and can’t prove their wealth was honestly earned.
Cinthya Garcia-Cisneros, a 19-year-old Oregon woman who failed to step forward after learning that two young girls were killed when she drove her sport utility vehicle into a leaf pile, was sentenced to three years of probation in the felony hit-and-run case.
Alexander Suturin, editor of Russia’s Molodoi Dalnevostochnik newspaper, was ordered to pay a $1,400 fine on charges of violating a law banning gay “propaganda” among minors after he published an interview with a gay schoolteacher who defended homosexuality as normal.
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