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Tal Ramon, a singer-songwriter, performed songs for a crowd gathered at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to honor the Columbia space shuttle that perished Feb. 1, 2003, with seven crewmen aboard, including Ramon’s father.
Cathy Stepp, an incoming EPA regional administrator, wore a fake nose and sunglasses and followed around a Department of Motor Vehicles driver to learn the route for a 2011 Wisconsin driving test so her daughter, Hannah, could practice after she failed her initial test, the younger Stepp, now 23, said.
Carol Cardillo, who operated an unlicensed day care out of her home in Fairfield, Conn., was sentenced to 30 months in prison for killing 4-month-old Adam Seagull by giving him an overdose of Benadryl.
Lt. Matt Pearson of the Butler Township, Pa., Police Department said three teens were arrested after they intentionally exposed a classmate to pineapple, to which she has a severe allergy that was well-known at the intermediate school, resulting in her being taken by ambulance to a hospital.
Dustin Snyder, 19, who is dying of synovial sarcoma, a form of cancer, plans to marry his high school sweetheart, Sierra Siverio, in Plant City, Fla., over the weekend, after the community came together and donated many of the wedding items, including the wedding gown, the venue and the rings.
Joshua Hansen, 25, of Dallas, in prison on a narcotics conviction, ran onto private land near the lockup and grabbed a duffel bag that held three bottles of brandy, some whiskey, tobacco and home-cooked food, and then tried to re-enter the prison, said officials in Jefferson County, Texas, adding that he now faces an escape charge.
Nicole Finn, 43, of West Des Moines, Iowa, was sentenced to three life sentences for starving her three children, one of whom, her 16-year-old daughter Natalie, died weighing 85 pounds.
Nilsa Marie Urena, 25, who is being sought in a string of Georgia bank robberies, has been dubbed the “Freedom Fighter Bandit” by the FBI because she claims she is robbing banks for a cause.
Jerome Munier , a spokesman for the Paris Zoo, said visitors were evacuated Friday after four Guinea baboons escaped from their enclosure and were later found in a closed area, where employees planned to use treated darts to sedate them and move them back in with their 46 baboon peers.