LITTLE ROCK — Leeland Eisenberg, who in 2007 took hostages at a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign office in New Hampshire, has cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet and fled, said Strafford County Attorney Thomas Velardi, who warned people not to approach Eisenberg if he is spotted because “he has been violent in the past.”

Levi Johnston, 19, the father of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s grandson whose nude photos were a big hit last fall on Playgirl’s Web site, will appear on the cover of Playgirl’s newly resurrected print version available Feb. 22 on newsstands.

Carolyn Riley, 35, was convicted in Brockton, Mass., of second-degree murder in the fatal prescription drug overdose of her 4-year-old daughter and sentenced to the mandatory term of life in prison, with parole eligibility after 15 years.

Jeff Kepner, 58, a Georgia man who is the nation’s first double hand transplant recipient, has left the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center after medicine cleared up a rash that signaled he might be rejecting his new hands, a hospital spokesman said.

Jason Pede, 31, an Indiana man who was driving from Dulce, N.M., to Aspen, Colo., to deliver a rescue dog, survived three days in his vehicle after he got stuck in the Rio Grande National Forest in snow that went above the hood of his Lincoln Navigator.

Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s president, announced he will host Suddenly, With Chavez, a new radio program on state-run Venezuelan National Radio that doesn’t have a schedule and can be aired at any moment.

Nicole Allen, 22, who prosecutors say was on a midnight beer run when a stove fire broke out in her apartment where three children were left alone, has been found guilty in Rochester, N.Y., of criminally negligent homicide in the death of her 3-year-old and three counts of endangering the welfare of a child.

Francois Fillon, France’s prime minister, said the government will ensure that new immigrants to the country will receive training on sexual equality and the French language as part of efforts to better integrate them into society.

Sean Lynde, 36, who authorities said killed a series of his girlfriend’s cats, including kittens the woman had adopted after her other cats died, has pleaded guilty in New York to aggravated animal cruelty.

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