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Bernard Guillas, executive chef at the high-end Marine Room restaurant in San Diego, posted photos on Facebook of a malnourished 8-month-old sea lion pup that had wandered in through a back door and was discovered curled up in a waterfront-view booth watching the waves crash outside.
Todd Weiler, a Republican state senator in Utah, introduced a resolution that would declare pornography a public health crisis because, he said, its accessibility on smartphones and tablets leads young people to compulsively look at it and to engage in risky sexual behavior.
Derek Medina, 33, of South Miami, Fla., was sentenced to life in prison for shooting his wife eight times during an argument in 2013, then posting a photo of her dead body on Facebook.
Sean Riddle, 27, of Jersey City, N.J., was arrested on charges of reckless endangerment and aviation in and over New York City after police say he was trying to take pictures with a drone when it crashed into the 102-story Empire State Building at the 40th floor and fell disabled onto a 35th-floor ledge.
Betty Morrell, 82, of Spring Hill, Fla., who was put up for adoption soon after she was born, finally met her birth mother, Lena Pierce, now 96, of Hallstead, Pa., thanks to the dogged persistence of Morrell’s granddaughter who conducted a 20-year search.
Tylor Charette, 22, of Bettie, Texas, was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years for molesting two boys of elementary-school age whom she baby-sat, giving them “prizes” to stay quiet about the abuse, prosecutors said.
Molly Schuyler wolfed down 429 chicken wings, 21 more than fellow professional eater Patrick Bertoletti, to win Philadelphia’s Wing Bowl for the second time in three years.
Biff Michaud, owner of the Salem Witch Museum in Salem, Mass., had his eye on the seventh edition of The Bay Psalm Book that once belonged to Jonathan Corwin, a judge during the city’s famous 1692 witch trials, but Michaud’s $40,000 bid was not enough to buy the book, which eventually sold for $180,000 at auction.
Tyler Tomer, 29, of Wallingford, Conn., was charged with larceny and larceny by defrauding a public community after police said he shaved his head and took weight-loss pills to convince people that he had stage 3 brain cancer so he could collect thousands of dollars in donations.