The World

THURSDAY

A Wisconsin woman was charged with theft for selling fake stock in Facebook she said she had acquired from her daughter. Prosecutors charged Marianne Oleson, 46, of selling more than $55,000 worth of the bunk stock.

The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation cut funding for Planned Parenthood, saying it would no longer fund agencies under federal investigations.

Inmates working at a print shop in a Vermont prison managed to sneak the image of a pig into the crest used on state police cars, with 30 cruisers having sported the design for the past year.

Angelo Dundee, the boxing trainer who primed 15 world champions, including Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard and George Foreman, died at his home in Tampa, Fla., at the age of 90.

Maine seafarer Greg Brooks said he found the wreckage of a WWII merchant ship off the Massachusetts coast that held a cargo of nearly $3 billion worth of platinum.

FRIDAY

The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent, the lowest level since February, 2009, as the private sector added 243,000 non-farm payroll jobs in January.

About 100 people were trapped inside a ferry that sank in rough weather off Papua New Guinea, after the crowded boat went down with about 350 passengers.

Chinese police blocked human rights lawyer Mo Saoping from attending a Beijing dinner with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who said she wanted “a frank dialogue” with officials on human rights.

Competetitve eating legend Takeru Kobayashi, 127 pounds, downed enough hot wings to win the 20th annual Wing Bowl in Philadelphia, devouring a record-breaking 337 chicken wings during the 30-minute contest.

WEEKEND

Before a record audience of 111.3 million viewers, MVP Eli Manning quarterbacked the New York Giants to a 21-17 win over the New England Patriots in Superbowl XLVI.

Florence Green, the last known surviving veteran of World War I, died Sunday at the age of 110 in King’s Lynn, England, two weeks before her 111th birthday. Green served with the Women’s Royal Air Force as a waitress at an air base in eastern England. She was not officially recognized as a veteran of the war until researchers found her service record in Britain’s National Archives in 2010.

John Powell, suspected in the 2009 disappearance of his wife, Susan, blew up his family home in Puyallup, killing himself and his two sons, aged 5 and 7.

Illness struck dozens at the Salute to Spirit state cheerleading championships at the Comcast Arena in Everett Saturday. Officials reported numerous reports of people sickened with vomiting or diarrhea Sunday and Monday.

Golfer Clay Carpenter was stabbed twice in the leg with a broken club shaft by a golfer in a trailing foursome after a fight broke out because Carpenter’s group was playing too slow on a golf course outside Fort Worth, Texas.

MONDAY

President Barack Obama nominated Air Force Lieutenant General Janet Wolfenbarger to become the service’s first woman four-star general.

A team of Russian scientists unearthed Lake Vostok, a prehistoric subglacial body of water buried two-and-a-half miles below sea level in Antarctica.

Officials in Portland, Maine, announced plans to host its first ever international mustache film festival.

The Greek government and leaders of political parties failed to meet the deadline to agree with IMF and EU inspectors on a second bailout plan. If a plan is not in place by March 27, the country will default on billions worth of debt.

TUESDAY

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California struck down as unconstitutional Proposition 8, the state’s voter-approved ban on gay marriage, ruling 2-1 it violates the rights of gay Californians.

Fisherman in Karachi, Pakistan, used massive cranes to pull the carcass of a 40-foot whale shark they found dead in the Arabian Sea.

U.S. authorities began building a $4.3 million steel and concrete barrier 300 feet into the Pacific Ocean south of San Diego to curb attempts by illegal immigrants and drug smugglers to slip through the border via the sea.

Massive piles of sauerkraut on a Frankfurt highway caused a massive traffic jam during the morning rush hour after a truck dumped hundreds of packages of the pickled cabbage.

Compiled by Gazette staff from a variety

of sources.