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Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., has indefinitely postponed his return to Washington after suffering a recurrence of the urinary tract infection that has kept the 79-year-old away from the Senate since mid-September, his office said.
Joshua Boyle, whose three children were born while he and his wife, Caitlan Coleman, were held hostage in Afghanistan, said the couple decided to have kids while in captivity because they decided, “Hey, let’s make the best of this and at least go home with a larger start on our dream family.”
Elmo Griggs, 75, a pathologist who was carrying human organ samples in his pickup when he was arrested on drunken-driving charges in Morgan County, Ind., last month, was sentenced to a year of probation after pleading guilty to operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
Dave Gautreau of Phoenixville, Pa., said his suggestion at a mayoral candidates forum that he would look into using drug-sniffing bunnies, an Internet hoax, came from an idea presented to him at a gathering, adding that he thought he had confirmed such rabbits were in use in another city.
Carmellia Burgess said Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital is endangering her son by choosing to delay a kidney donation from the boy’s father, who has been in and out of jail, until Anthony Dickerson can show he has complied with his parole officer for three months.
Arthur Jemmy and Silfia Tobing, an Indonesian couple who fear they’ll be deported if they report to U.S. immigration officials, have taken refuge in a New Jersey church run by the Rev. Seth Kaper-Dale, the Green Party’s candidate for governor.
Pamela Gaudry of Savannah, Ga., said a flight attendant stopped her from singing the national anthem aboard a Delta Air Lines plane that was carrying the coffin of a fallen soldier, telling her it would violate company policy and make passengers from other countries uncomfortable.
Pau Hang, 41, was arrested after he sprayed a foul-smelling liquid on produce at a Charleston, S.C., grocery store for which he once was a contractor, then told police that the store owed him money, authorities said.
Derrick Hubbard faces charges including resisting an officer and public intimidation, accused of causing a disturbance in a parking lot in Monroe, La., and of telling an arresting officer that he would get revenge by having sex with “one of your white daughters.”