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Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, and her political action committee were sued over a photo on her website of firefighters raising the U.S. flag at the World Trade Center site after the 9/11 attacks, a copyrighted image that the North Jersey Media Group Inc. said was used without permission.
Fred Troxel, a Florida dentist, used denture-repair adhesive to attach two orthopedic plates across a 10-inch split in the shell of a 40-pound endangered green sea turtle that officials think was hit by a boat in the Florida Keys, and although the acrylic-resin patch seems to be holding, the reptile dubbed Elena faces a lengthy recovery.
Florence Pollard, 31, and her boyfriend Brian Craig, 29, were arrested in Camden, N.J., and charged with child endangerment and criminal restraint after Pollard’s 10-year-old son, who had been reported as a runaway, told officers that he had escaped after being chained to a radiator for two weeks.
Therese Murray, the Massachusetts Senate president, pleaded during a formal session for her fellow lawmakers to stop keeping candy in their desks because mice searching for the treats were also chewing the senators’ microphone wires.
Yuthapoom Martnok, a Thai man whose brother accused him of defaming the country’s monarch, a charge punishable by up to 15 years in prison, was acquitted by a judge who said there was not enough evidence to convict him.
Dan Pfeiffer, President Barack Obama’s 37-year-old chief strategist and one of his longest-serving advisers, is back at work after being hospitalized twice this month after suffering “strokelike symptoms,” White House officials said.
Chris Wilkinson, the mayor and police chief of Hamlin, W.Va., is resigning as pastor of Morning Star Community Church because some church members were unhappy with his decision to let law enforcement officers use the church’s bus for a methamphetamine-lab bust.
Ricky Jones, 25, a logger in Winston, Ore., said he was “slowly getting back into it” when he returned to work five days after being struck by lightning on the job.
Jeon Wook-pyo, 68, a South Korean man who was one of 25 boat crewmen abducted by North Korea in the Yellow Sea in 1972, escaped and returned home after 41 years, government officials said.