Family with 16 kids thinks about more
Little Rock, Ark. Michelle Duggar just delivered her 16th child, and she’s already thinking about doing it again. Johannah Faith Duggar was born at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, weighing 7 pounds, 6.5 ounces.
The baby’s father, Jim Bob Duggar, a former state representative who sells real estate, said Wednesday that mother and child were doing well. Duggar, 40, said he and Michelle, 39, want more children.
“We both just love children, and we consider each a blessing from the Lord,” he said.
The Discovery Health Channel filmed Johannah’s birth and plans to air a show about the family in May.
The Learning Channel is doing another show about the family’s construction project, a 7,000-square foot house. The home, which the family from the northwest Arkansas town of Rogers has been building for two years, will have nine bathrooms, dormitory-style bedrooms for the girls and boys, a commercial kitchen, four washing machines and four dryers.
Joan Kennedy has breast cancer surgery
Boston Joan Kennedy, former wife of Sen. Edward Kennedy and mother of Rep. Patrick Kennedy, was recovering Wednesday from breast cancer surgery.
Kennedy, 69, underwent a lumpectomy Tuesday at Massachusetts General Hospital, according to a person close to the family. She also will be treated with radiation.
The surgery comes just months after a legal battle with her children, who argued she was unfit to care for herself due to chronic alcoholism. A settlement, reached in June, calls for two trustees to manage her estate and a guardian to supervise her personal affairs.
Times reporter testifies for more than an hour
Washington New York Times reporter Judith Miller on Wednesday completed her testimony before a grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA officer’s name. She was summoned for a second appearance to discuss a previously undisclosed conversation she had had with Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff.
Miller and her lawyer, Robert S. Bennett, emerged from the courthouse after she gave more than an hour’s worth of testimony. Both declined to comment.
The appearance came a day after Miller surrendered previously undisclosed notes on her June 23, 2003, contact with I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Cheney’s chief of staff. The Times said she was summoned specifically to discuss the notes and the conversation with Libby.
BTK killer faces limits on prison activities
El Dorado, Kan. A judge recommended Wednesday that BTK killer Dennis Rader receive treatment as a sexual offender while he serves the rest of his life in prison for 10 murders.
In a hearing Wednesday at the El Dorado Correctional Facility, District Judge Gregory Waller also recommended restrictions sought by prosecutors on what Rader can receive or do in prison.
For example, Rader would not be able to receive any instruments that he could use to make anything pornographic to satisfy his sexual fantasies. Rader also would be barred from seeing or listening to news reports about the murders.
The judge’s recommendations must be approved by the Kansas Department of Corrections.
Jet allegedly stolen in joy riding incident
Lawrenceville, Ga. A man was arrested on charges of stealing a charter jet and taking it on a 350-mile joy ride from Florida to Georgia, police said Wednesday.
The circumstances of the theft were not clear, but nothing threatening was found on the plane, police spokesman Darren Moloney said. The incident “appears to be a joy ride.”
Daniel Andrew Wolcott, 22, was charged with felony theft and misdemeanor reckless conduct. He has a commercial-rated pilot’s license, but is not licensed to fly a plane like the 10-passenger Cessna Citation VII he allegedly took, police said.