A drunk Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Krusinski, the officer in charge of the U.S. Air Force's effort to combat sexual assault in the military was arrested over the weekend for allegedly grabbing a woman by the breasts and buttocks in a parking lot not far from the Pentagon, officials said on Monday.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Russian President Vladimir Putin that the U.S. and Russia share common interests in Syria, and that the two countries ought to work more closely to help end the bloodshed in the Arab country that has killed more than 70,000 people.
Three women who went separately about a decade ago, when they were teenagers or early 20s, had been tied up but were found alive on Monday in a residential area just south of downtown Cleveland.Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight likely had been tied up during years of captivity, said police, who arrested three brothers, police said.
Grammy Award winning singer Lauryn Hill was sentenced to three months in prison on Monday, and an additional three months in home confinement for failing to pay taxes on about $1 million in earnings. Hill pleaded guilty last year in the case. Hill explained that she always meant to eventually pay the taxes but was unable to during the period when she dropped out of the music business.
