In brief: Retreat gets historic listing

Washington – Cesar Chavez’s California retreat has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced the designation of the site in the Tehachapi Mountains where the labor leader lived and led the farmworkers movement the last 22 years of his life.

The 187-acre Nuestra Senora Reina de La Paz in Keene, southeast of Bakersfield, is now home to the National Chavez Center. Chavez was buried there in 1993.

Lightning kills casino worker

Atlantic City – Lightning struck three workers who were finishing concrete at an Atlantic City casino project in one of the state’s tallest buildings on Thursday, killing one and injuring the others.

The accident happened around 3:30 p.m. during a brief but intense storm that filled the air with lightning and torrential rain.

Hunting prohibition global

Raleigh, N.C. – A North Carolina man who bagged a deer and a bobcat in Kentucky without getting the proper permits has found himself banned from hunting anywhere in the world for two years.

Rodney Poteat was sentenced in federal court in Kentucky last week after pleading guilty to charges of killing the deer and bobcat and transporting them to his home in Salisbury, N.C.

The plea deal cost him $5,350 and two years’ probation, during which “the defendant shall be prohibited from hunting or accompanying anyone hunting anywhere in the world,” reads the judge’s order.