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National Briefs: Jackson's single white glove sells for $350,000
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Published: November 22, 2009
Updated: 11/21/2009 11:05 pm
NEW YORK The gleaming white glove that Michael Jackson wore when he premiered his trademark moonwalk dance in 1983 has been auctioned off for $350,000.
The glove was the top item among the memorabilia auctioned at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square.
Judge orders that Hasan be held until his trial
SAN ANTONIO -- A military magistrate has ruled that the Army psychiatrist charged in one of the worst mass shootings on a U.S. military base will be held until trial. For now, Maj. Nidal Hasan will stay in a military hospital in San Antonio.
The magistrate made that decision yesterday during a hearing in Hasan's hospital room. Hasan is recovering from the Nov. 5 shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, that killed 13 and wounded more than two dozen.
Ex-military nurse acquitted of murder in deaths of three
SAN ANTONIO -- A court martial acquitted a former military nurse of murder yesterday after he was accused of giving lethal doses of painkillers to hasten the deaths of three terminally ill patients at the Air Force's largest hospital.
Capt. Michael Fontana, wearing his Air Force uniform, showed no emotion as a military judge cleared him, then he collapsed into the arms of weeping family members in a courtroom at Lackland Air Force Base.
Suspicious note, package found at Fort Benning, Ga.
FORT BENNING, Ga. -- A Fort Benning spokesman says that Army officials are investigating whether a suspicious note and package found at the west Georgia post is a serious threat.
Bob Purtiman says that a soldier found the note and package Thursday morning in an outdoor gazebo. The soldier immediately told a supervisor, who called 911. Purtiman would not say what was in the note or package.
Message on Facebook may have led to beating of boy
LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles County sheriff's detectives are investigating an assault on a 12-year-old middle school boy in Calabasas who may have been targeted after a Facebook group urged students to beat up redheads, a sheriff's official said yesterday.
The boy was kicked and hit by as many as 14 of his classmates in two separate incidents on the campus of A.E. Wright Middle School in Calabasas, Lt. Richard Erickson said.
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