OHIO
Police say a woman, 89, faces a petty theft charge because neighborhood children say she won’t give back their football.
TEXAS
Starr County Sheriff Reymundo Guerra resigned Monday after a U.S. indictment accused him of helping a Mexican drug cartel operate in his border county.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear arguments over using identity-theft charges against undocumented foreign workers who have Social Security and identification numbers that belong to others. The central question is whether the defendant must know that the counterfeit identification belongs to someone else.
PENNSYLVANIA
Ten hours a day, Elizabeth Feudale-Bowes confines herself to a steel-and-porcelain shed. She calls it her sanctuary from a world that makes her violently ill. But a judge says it must come down. bancodeprofissionais.com/allergybubble
ITALY
A top Tuscan wine producer said Monday that authorities found no irregularities in thousands of bottles of 2003 Brunello di Montalcino seized this year. The Castello Banfi vintner said the bottles are now on sale.
MEXICO
In a move expected to reduce the number of Cubans reaching the U.S., Mexico agreed Monday to deport Cubans smuggled into the country on their way to the United States.
ENGLAND
Festus Mogae, the former president of Botswana, won the 2008 Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership and more than $5 million Monday for his leadership skills.
BOLIVIA
President Evo Morales agreed Monday to seek only one more 5-year term in exchange for Bolivia’s Congress calling a national vote on a new constitution.
SOUTH AFRICA
Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, boycotted a regional meeting Monday, saying the session was too limited to push President Robert Mugabe into taking steps needed to implement a power-sharing government.
NEBRASKA
Officials to close abandonment-law loophole
Stung by the abandonments of children as old as 17 under Nebraska’s new safe-haven law, the governor and lawmakers agreed Monday to narrow its broad wording to protect only the parents of babies up to 3 days old from prosecution. At least 18 children have been abandoned since July.
CHINA
1,500
The number of dogs bred for their raccoon-like fur that have died after eating feed tainted with melamine, a veterinarian said Monday, raising questions about how widespread the industrial chemical is in China’s food chain.
ENGLAND
“Before this case I had associated cannibalism with … the tale of Robinson Crusoe. No longer.”
— Judge James Stewart, who on Monday sentenced a British chef to a minimum of 30 years in prison for killing a man with a knife and cooking and eating his flesh
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