In the news
Alison Glazer-bauren find told The Daily Record of Parsippany, N.J., that while black bears aren’t rare for Sussex County, it is pretty unusual to see one roaming outside the office complex where she works.
Matthew Milat, 19, an Australian serial killer’s great-nephew who pleaded guilty to killing David Auchterlonie and purportedly boasted after the murder, “You know me, you know my family. ... I did what they do,” has been sentenced in Sydney to 43 years in prison for the ax slaying of Auchterlonie in the same forest where Ivan Milat killed seven backpackers between 1989 and 1992.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-KY., has endorsed Mitt Romney for president, telling Fox News’ Sean Hannity that “my first choice had always been my father,” but with the nominating process over, he’s supporting Romney rather than Ron Paul.
Christopher “Dudus” Coke, 43, a Jamaican convicted of heading an international narcotics-trafficking ring since the early 1990s, has been sentenced in New York to 23 years in prison.
Krzyszof Jarzebski, 53, a Paralympics athlete from Poland who lost his legs to cancer in 1991 and who hoped to hand-pedal across the United States, is stuck in San Francisco after a thief stole his $13,000 custom bike.
Vuk Jeremic, Serbia’s foreign minister, has been elected by the U.N. General Assembly as president of its next session, defeating Lithuania’s U.N. Ambassador Dalius Cekuolis by a vote of 99-85 on the first ballot.
Junior Alexander Guy, 49, of Orlando, Fla., said he was subjected to dozens of harassing phone calls after T-mobile issued him the same number formerly used by George Zimmerman, the neighborhood-watch volunteer who fatally shot Trayvon Martin in February.
Betty Jones, 54, said she was just praising the Lord by singing and dancing to music by Johnny Cash, Randy Travis, Alan Jackson and The Judds, albeit at a high volume, when she was cited over allegations she violated the noise ordinance in Bristol, Tenn.
Raja Lahrasib Khan, 58, a Pakistani-born Chicago taxi driver and naturalized U.S. citizen since 1988, was
1 sentenced to 7 ⁄ years in
2 prison followed by lifetime supervision for attempting to send money to a terrorist with reputed links to alQaida.