NEW YORK — David Rand cheerfully acknowledges he’s an overprotective father. An ex-Marine who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, he’s also a single dad to 5-year-old Emma.
PARKLAND, Fla. — Jean Nidetch ambles down the hallway of the senior community where she lives, two cups of Coca-Cola teetering on her walker. In her one-bedroom apartment, there are Klondike bars in the freezer and, in the fridge, Baileys Irish Cream beside Chinese take-out. If these don’t seem the trappings of the woman who founded Weight Watchers, don’t be alarmed. At 87, Nidetch has earned some allowances. Besides, she says, she doesn’t touch most of the stuff anyway.
EXETER, N.H. — Despite a new rival’s surge, Mitt Romney is campaigning as though he’s still the GOP presidential front-runner, focusing his criticisms on President Barack Obama, taking few risks and keeping most proposals vague enough to leave ample maneuvering room.
LAS VEGAS — Jerry Lewis said Saturday that his years of service to the Muscular Dystrophy Association helped make him a star, but he didn’t provide details on his recent departure as the group’s national chairman. In his first public appearance since the that announcement, Lewis accepted a lifetime achievement award from the Nevada Broadcasters Association, saying that he made his reputation in show business by saving lives.
After decades of neglecting the subject, Delaware County’s emergency response agencies, through a training exercise planned for this Halloween, finally hope to address a long-standing potential crisis-in-waiting: flesh-eating zombies.
If passed by voters, a proposed 0.5 percent Buckeye Valley income tax increase that will appear on the November ballot will cost less than previously reported by the Gazette.
A citizen-led referendum effort to stop a Liberty Township housing development planned for the south side of the intersection of Home Road and Ohio 315 will move forward following a Monday vote from the Delaware County Board of Elections.
LONDON (AP) — Scotland Yard’s assistant commissioner resigned Monday, a day after his boss also quit, and fresh investigations of possible police wrongdoing were launched in the phone hacking scandal that has spread from Rupert Murdoch’s media empire to the British prime minister’s office.