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Chris Ihle, 38, a bank worker in Ames, Iowa, who is being hailed as a hero for pushing an elderly couple’s stalled car off a railroad track seconds before a freight train rumbled by, said the experience is “still kind of a blur to me. Holy cow.”
Jerry Hall, a 49-yearold scuba diver, emerged “very, very cold, very wrinkled and gray” from South Holston Lake in Tennessee after being underwater for six days, one hour and 42 minutes in what is believed to be a record-setting freshwater dive, said his trainer, Ella Helton.
Nancy Mace, the first woman to graduate from The Citadel, the military college of South Carolina, has announced her plans to challenge U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham in the state’s Republican primary in 2014.
Bhumibol Adulyadej, Thailand’s 85-year-old king, has returned to his seaside palace in Hua Hin after leaving a Bangkok hospital where the world’s longest-reigning monarch had lived since being admitted for lung inflammation four years ago.
Marcus Jerome Landrum, a 32-year-old Waco, Texas, man with a long history of mental illness, has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of capital murder in the stabbing of a 70-yearold man multiple times with ornamental swords and steak knives.
Flora Vargas, assistant manager of a Subway restaurant in Reno, Nev., aided in the emergency delivery of a “beautiful boy” in the eatery’s restroom, where Vargas placed sandwich wrappers and trash bags on the floor for sanitation.
Ethan Fishbane, 23, a New York City playwright who directed a play called the American Suicide Bomber Association, unwittingly sparked a bomb scare when he threw a prop from the production into the trash at his apartment building.
Eddie Lucio, the lone Democrat in the Texas Senate who backed the state’s new abortion restrictions, is pushing for a law requiring women to complete an adoption course before terminating a pregnancy.
Samuel Liggett, an 18-year-old from Memphis, who will be competing this week for a $10,000 scholarship and the title of world champion at the Pokemon Trading Card Game in Vancouver, British Columbia, joked that some fellow players of the Japanese card game are “really strange people that smell really bad” but added that most aren’t.