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Stephanie Edginton and Nicole Montgomery, twin sisters born three minutes apart, gave birth to their daughters, Cora and Louisa, just six minutes apart at the same hospital in Voorhees, N. J.
Alayna Weishner- Rush, 23, of Washington, Pa., was charged with criminal solicitation after police said she tried to get a couple to rob the fast- food restaurant where she worked in the drive- thru window so she could split the money with them later.
Charles Sebesta, a former prosecutor in Burleson County, Texas, lost a bid to get his law license back, having been disbarred for using false testimony and withholding evidence to send a now- exonerated man to death row in a 1992 murder case.
Erika Colligan, a 50- year- old San Diego software consultant and daughter of a South Vietnamese pilot killed during the Vietnam War, traveled to Texas so she could finally see one of her father’s wartime paintings that is owned by a retired U. S. Air Force flight instructor, after a search that lasted for three decades.
David DiPaolo, 33, of Bristow, Va., pleaded guilty to killing Geoffrey Farrar, 69, a climber who was DiPaolo’s mentor for 20 years, by hitting the man on the head with a claw hammer at the Carderock Recreation Area in Bethesda, Md., during an argument in 2013, federal prosecutors said.
The Rev. Osagyefo Sekou, scholar in residence at the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University, was acquitted by a jury of disobeying a police order to disperse during a protest outside police headquarters in Ferguson, Mo.
Chudy Nsobundu, 56, and his wife, Sandra, 50, both of Katy, Texas, were arrested on federal labor and immigration charges after prosecutors accused them of seizing the passport of a Nigerian woman to force her to care for their five children and clean their house without pay.
Marion Fassimo, 72, of McAlester, Okla., was driving east of the city when he was struck in the head by a stray .22- caliber bullet, resulting in his being admitted to a Tulsa hospital where he’s listed in critical condition, Pittsburg County Sheriff Joel Kerns said.
Joshua James, 24, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon by police in West Palm Beach, Fla., after a worker at a fast- food restaurant said James drove off after throwing a 3 ½ - foot alligator through a drive- thru window.