Former senator faces charges: A federal grand jury indicted two-time presidential candidate John Edwards on Friday over $925,000 spent to keep his mistress and their baby in hiding during the peak of his 2008 campaign for the White House. The case of USA v. Johnny Reid Edwards contains six counts, including conspiracy, four counts of illegal campaign contributions and one count of false statements. The indictment says the payments were a scheme to protect Edwards’ White House ambitions. “A centerpiece of Edwards’ candidacy was his public image as a devoted family man,” the indictment says.
‘Dr. Death’ dies: Jack Kevorkian, the audacious, fearless doctor who spurred on the national right-to-die debate with a homemade suicide machine that helped end the lives of dozens of ailing people, died today at a Detroit-area hospital after a brief illness. He was 83. Kevorkian died about 2:30 a.m. at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, according to a close friend and prominent attorney, Mayer Morganroth. Kevorkian had been hospitalized since last month with pneumonia and kidney problems.
