News of the day from across the nation, Feb. 9
Kennedy, 53, is the eighth of 11 children of Ethel Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, a former U.S. attorney general who represented New York in the Senate and was assassinated in 1968 while seeking the Democratic nomination for president.
The Boy Scouts changed its policy of referring to the gender on birth certificates to determine eligibility last week after Maldonado’s story gained national attention.
Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman was released Wednesday from a federal prison in Louisiana where he was serving a six-year sentence for bribery and obstruction of justice, a family spokesman said.
A federal jury in 2006 convicted Siegelman,70, on charges that he sold a seat on a state regulatory board in exchange for $500,000 in donations to Siegelman’s signature political issue — his 1999 campaign to establish a state lottery.
4 Ex-priest indicted: A former Roman Catholic priest who spent more than a decade in a Massachusetts prison for raping an altar boy has been indicted in Maine on 29 counts of sexual misconduct dating to the 1980s.
Paquin, freed in 2015, was a central figure in the Boston archdiocese’s sex abuse scandal.