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John Wise, 66, who has been charged in Akron, Ohio, with aggravated murder in the shooting death of his wife, Barbara Wise, in a hospital intensive care unit, “did what he did out of love,” said friend Terry Henderson, who added that John Wise once told him the couple had agreed they never wanted to become disabled in a nursing home.

Jo Adams, owner of the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory in Estes Park, Colo., said a bear that broke into her store last month “was very clean and very careful,” but did eat a lot of candy.

Clayton Osbon, the JetBlue Airways pilot who disrupted a March 27 flight from New York to Las Vegas by leaving the cockpit and yelling about religion and terrorists, has had a psychotic episode in prison and requires further mental evaluation, said U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson.

Austin Weirschke, 16, a Rhinelander, Wis., teen and the reigning champion of cell-phone texting, has held onto the title of fastest texter in America, besting 10 opponents at the competition in New York’s Times Square.

Joan Rivers, 79, who handcuffed herself to a shopping cart to protest that the Costco store in Burbank, Calif., had refused to carry her latest book, I Hate Everything... Starting With Me , and her camera crew were escorted from the store by police.

Manny Castro, a homosexual artist who has taken credit for painting “Tastes Like Hate” on the wall of a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Torrance, Calif., told The Huffington Post that his action was “not born out of hate,” but rather “was born out of frustration. It was meant to further a discussion about tolerance and acceptance.”

Mark Kerrigan, brother of ice skater Nancy Kerrigan, cannot return to prison to serve the last four months of an assault sentence in connection with the 2010 death of his father, rather than comply with the conditions of his probation, a Massachusetts judge has ruled.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. secretary of state, encouraged students at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa to live up to Nelson Mandela’s legacy by promoting human rights and democracy among their neighbors and around the world.

Robert Storch, a longtime federal prosecutor, has been named the Justice Department’s whistle-blower ombudsman for Inspector General Michael Horowitz.