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Hillary Rodham Clinton ducked and did not appear to have been struck during a Las Vegas speech when a woman threw what was described as a shoe at the former secretary of state before being taken into custody.

F. Lee Bailey , 80, the celebrity lawyer whose clients have included O.J. Simpson and Patty Hearst, was denied the right to practice law in Maine, keeping him from restarting his legal career after being barred in other states after mishandling a client’s stocks.

Michael Anthony Brown , 31, of North Carolina who while posing as a podiatry student asked a woman to try on shoes for him at a Wal-Mart in Lincolnton, then suddenly began sucking on her toes, was sentenced to 60 days in jail.

U. S. Rep. Vance McAllister , R-La., was the focus of calls by Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal and the state party’s chairman to resign in the wake of a videotape that shows McAllister in a lingering kiss with a friend’s wife.

William Bradford Bishop Jr. , who was a State Department employee in 1976 when he is suspected of killing his wife, mother and three sons, was added to the FBI’s list of “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives,” drawing renewed attention to the case.

Thomas Carmody ,a Republican state representative in Louisiana who has sponsored a bill to name the Bible as the official state book, insists that the proposal isn’t intended as a state endorsement of Christianity.

William Best Jr. , 47, the pastor of Living Waters Church in Valley Grande, Ala., was charged with rape, sodomy and incest, accused of abusing a boy beginning when the youth was 14 and continuing for three years.

Joanne Maura ,a Massachusetts high school teacher who had a chair thrown at her by a student when Maura confiscated the student’s cellphone, faces disciplinary action because school officials say she didn’t report the attack.

Seamus Daly , 43, an Irish Republican Army member suspected in a 1998 car bombing that killed 29 people in Omagh, the deadliest bombing of the Northern Ireland conflict, has been charged with 29 counts of murder.

Paula Sophia , a transgender Oklahoma City police officer who engaged in a legal battle with the department after becoming a woman a decade ago, has retired from the force so she can run as a Democrat for an open seat in the Oklahoma House of Representatives.