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Jayalalithaa Jayaram, chief minister of India’s Tamil Nadu state, said investigators are trying to determine whether a man’s death at a college campus was caused by a falling meteorite that left a crater in the ground and blew out windows in nearby buildings.
Codie Dotterer, 25, an inmate at the Beaver County, Pa., jail, is facing aggravated assault and other charges after investigators said he grabbed a guard’s stun gun and fired, injuring four correctional officers as they hauled him off to solitary confinement for possessing contraband in his cell.
Abdel- Fattah el- Sissi, president of Egypt, is under fire from critics after 2.5 miles of red carpet was draped over public roads for his motorcade during a trip he made to open a social housing project in a Cairo suburb, where he preached austerity.
Robert Dingeldein, 26, was charged with theft after police in Irwin, Pa., said he stole several police badges while being held in the mayor’s office to keep him away from a woman also being questioned during a domestic dispute investigation.
James Robertson, 57, who once walked 21 miles a day to and from Detroit to a job in Rochester Hills, Mich., said he’s still adjusting to a 12- minute commute and has put on a little weight after donors gave him a car and $ 360,000 after hearing about his trek.
Ryan Bresette of Overland Park, Kan., said his family thought it “absolutely beautiful” that the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport in Alabama unveiled a sign honoring his son, Luke, who died when he was hit by a flight information sign that toppled over.
Michael Kesler, an Alabama state trooper, was ready to issue a ticket to Danny Lowe for speeding but ended up helping Lowe’s wife, Shawna, deliver their baby son when she went into labor on the side of U. S. 72 near Athens, Ala.
Pat McCrory, governor of North Carolina, suffered minor injuries but declined treatment in Santa Clara, Calif., after the vehicle he was riding in was totaled when it was rear- ended by a Mercedes shortly after the Carolina Panthers’ Super Bowl loss, a spokesman said.
LaTonya Lockhart, principal of Hood Middle School in Dallas, said a majority of students who cast ballots in a nonbinding vote want to rename the school, which opened in 1955 and was named after Confederate Gen. John B. Hood.