Gov. Rick Perry, a Texas Republican, indicated that he supports the Harrold Independent School District’s decision to allow teachers and staff members to carry concealed firearms to deter and protect against school shootings when classes start this month, saying, “There’s a lot of incidents where that would have saved a number of lives.” Dick Heller, the man whose lawsuit overturned the District of Columbia’s handgun ban, has successfully registered his. 22-caliber revolver, ending a more than 30-year wait to keep the weapon in his home. Margarita Mbywangi, a 46-year-old Ache Indian woman who says she was captured in the Paraguayan jungle and sold into forced labor as a girl, was named by President Fernando Lugo to Paraguay’s Cabinet as the country’s minister of indigenous affairs. John Molony, mayor of the Australian Outback mining town of Mount Isa, is in hot water with the town’s women after he told an area newspaper that the town could deal with its shortage of the fairer sex by finding out “where there are beauty-disadvantaged women and ask them to proceed to Mount Isa,” and then implied that such women already reside in the town and have found happiness there.
Annie Lennox, 53, the Scottish singer-songwriter who first gained notice as part of the Eurythmics, is recovering at her London home after having spinal surgery to release an impinged nerve. Philip Thompson, 27, a British man accused of serving as the “librarian” of a child pornography archive, pleaded guilty to 16 counts, including making indecent photographs of children and distributing indecent photographs of children, and was sentenced by a Middlesbrough court to serve at least three years and nine months in prison. Jolanda Jones, a Houston councilman and former track star at the University of Houston, and two other people rescued a woman from a burning vehicle after a car crash.
Pushpa Kamal Dahal, 63, the head of Nepal’s former communist rebels who is better known as Prachanda, has been sworn in as the country’s new prime minister two years after the former communists, known as Maoists, gave up their armed revolt in April 2006 and entered a peace process. Joe Gaddie, the sheriff of Butler County, Ky., drove 4, 100 miles to California to pick up Joe Oros, who was wanted in Kentucky on charges of fleeing and evading police and drunken driving, then discovered upon their return to Kentucky that Oros was the wrong guy after a check of mug shots and fingerprints showed the man wanted in Kentucky had stolen Oros’ identity.
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