DEAL REACHED TO LIMIT IRAN’S NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES
1 GENEVA — Iran struck a historic nuclear deal Sunday with the United States and five other world powers, in the most significant development between Washington and Tehran in more than three decades of estrangement. The agreement commits Iran to curb its nuclear activities in exchange for gradual sanctions relief. President Barack Obama hailed the deal as putting “substantial limitations” on Iran’s nuclear program. “While today’s announcement is just a first step, it achieves a great deal,” Obama said. “For the first time in nearly a decade, we have halted the progress of the Iranian nuclear program, and key parts of the program will be rolled back.” Secretary of State John Kerry said the first-step deal will make Israel safer. A White House statement called the nuclear agreement an “initial, six-month step.” Specifically, the statement said the deal limits Iran’s existing stockpiles of enriched uranium, which can be turned into the fissile core of nuclear arms. The statement also said the accord curbs the number of the centrifuges used to enrich and limits Iran ability to “produce weapons-grade uranium.” “Taken together, these first-step measures will help prevent Iran from using the cover of negotiations to continue advancing its nuclear program,” said the statement. In return, the statement promised “limited, temporary, targeted, and reversible (sanctions) relief” to Iran.
SAN DIEGO
Sirhan transferred Nov. 22
2 Sirhan Sirhan, 69, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s killer, was moved to a new prison in California on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Sirhan was transferred Friday from the Corcoran prison in central California to the Donovan prison in San Diego. Said corrections spokeswoman Deborah Hoffman. “This transfer had been planned, and the date of the move is simply an unfortunate coincidence.”
ST. LOUIS Life plus 20 years for killer of Wheaton graduate
3 Keith Esters, 19, was sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years for killing Wheaton native Megan Boken, 23, a former Saint Louis University volleyball player, while trying to steal her cellphone.
TEXARKANA, TEXAS
Plea possible in ricin case
4 Shannon Guess Richardson, a Texas actress accused of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and then trying to frame her husband, has reached a plea deal.
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y.
2 arrested in lottery scam
5 Police on Long Island said a deli owner and his son are under arrest for scamming a customer out of a $1 million lottery ticket. Police said a 34-year-old man bought the ticket Thursday, scratched it off and saw that he was a winner, then handed the ticket to 26-year-old Karim Jaghab to collect his winnings. The ticket was worth $1 million, but Jaghab gave the man $1,000 in cash and kept the ticket, police said. The customer went back Friday. Police say Jaghab and his father tried to give him $10,000.
NEW YORK
‘Knockout’ game victim?
6 New York City police say one man was arrested and charged with assault as a hate crime after a 24-year-old says he was punched in the face. Police on Saturday are investigating whether it was a game called “knockout.” The object is to knock out an unsuspecting person with one punch. The man says he overheard a group talking about the game before he was hit.
SEATTLE
Boeing taking 777X bids
7 Boeing Co. is soliciting bids from more than a dozen locations that want to build the new 777X airplane and secure thousands of jobs along with it, a company official said Saturday, though declining to specify the locations of interest.
ALFRED, MAINE
Zumba madam freed
8 The Zumba instructor who ran a prostitution business in which she videotaped unsuspecting clients so her business partner could watch from his office 100 miles away has been released from jail. Alexis Wright served nearly six months of a 10-month sentence. Her term was cut short because of good behavior and participation in a work program.