Almon Glenn Braswell, a California businessman pardoned by President Clinton for a 1983 fraud conviction regarding a hair-growth product, was arrested by Internal Revenue Service agents on charges of tax evasion concerning his dietary supplement business.
Judge Roger Crittenden of Kentucky's Franklin County Circuit Court ruled that Gov. Paul Patton did not defame nursing home owner Tina Conner when he initially denied that they had a two-year affair, leving only a charge of outrageous conduct in her lawsuit against him.
Chris Shields of Eliot, Maine, clipped $41,400 worth of $200-off coupons from newspaper ads paid for by Toyota of Portsmouth, N.H., and tried to use them to buy a silver Toyota 2002 Sequoia Limited, but he was rebuffed despite pointing out that the ad did not specify one coupon per customer.
Brad Neavin,, assistant principal at Bellbrook High School in Sugarcreek Township, Ohio, said a student in hot water for wearing a T-Shirt showing President Bush in a rifle's cross hairs will not be charged with any crime, although Secret Service officials said the matter is not closed.
Mel Lastman, , mayor of Toronto, who survived well-publicized gaffes and a paternity suit stemming from an extramarital 12-year affair, announced that he would not seek re-elections.
Eric Brown, 38, was booked without bond in Fort Pierce, Fla., and could face charges of destroying government property after sheriff's deputies said they found the armed-robbery suspect shoving documents from his folder in the jail intake room down a holding-cell toilet.
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