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Grace Kelly Childhood Home Owner Pleads No Contest to Animal Cruelty, Sebelius Resignation

by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 04/11/14 1:13 am | updated: 04/11/14 1:13 am

An elderly woman has pleaded no contest to animal cruelty charges in what authorities say was a cat-hoarding situation in Hollywood icon Grace Kelly's childhood home. Eighty-two-year-old Marjorie Bamont was convicted in December of 14 counts of animal cruelty but didn't appear in court and appealed. The Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said Bamont pleaded no contest Thursday rather than fight the conviction. SPCA agents seized 14 cats and a dog on Oct. 31 from the large home in the cityâ€™s leafy East Falls neighborhood.

A judge in Harrisburg has unsealed the record in the case of an aborted sting operation that ensnared several top Philadelphia Democrats. Last month, Attorney General Kathleen Kane cited racial targeting as one reason she believes the sting operation was fatally flawed. At a news conference after the case record was unsealed Thursday, Kane said despite his denials, Claude Thomas â€“ now an investigator with the Philadelphia DAâ€™s office â€“ made the racial claim in an exit interview with the AGâ€™s office.

President Barack Obama's embattled Health and Human Services secretary is resigning as the White House seeks to move past the election-year political damage inflicted by the rocky rollout of Obama's signature health care law. Kathleen Sebelius' resignation comes just over a week after sign-ups closed for the first year of insurance coverage under the so-called Obamacare law. The opening weeks of the enrollment period were marred by widespread website woes. Even with the late surge in sign-ups, the law remains unpopular with many Americans and Republicans have made it a centerpiece of their efforts to retake the Senate in the fall.

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