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Greg Bogert, a police sergeant in Riverdale, N.J., was recorded on his cruiser’s dash camera yelling “Don’t do it!” as he chased and then wrestled to the ground an unidentified man who said he wanted to die, stopping him from jumping off an interstate bridge.

Jacquelin Thomas, 70, a day care owner in Louisville, Ky., pleaded innocent to manslaughter in the death of her great-nephew, 2-year-old Lavontae Swain, who died of hyperthermia after being left in a hot vehicle for several hours.

Christopher Knight, 50, who lived as a hermit in the Maine woods for 27 years, during which he committed an estimated 1,000 burglaries and thefts, wants a judge to vacate a $1,125 restitution order sought by state police to cover the cost of building a road to his camp, Knight’s attorney said.

Alexander Rzhanenkov, a spokesman for St. Petersburg, Russia, said that a 10-year-old girl mingled with a large family at Moscow’s airport, enabling her to board a plane and fly to St. Petersburg without identification or a ticket.

Oscar Sanchez of Jersey City, N.J., pulled over for a missing front license plate, had his Mercedes-Benz impounded after authorities discovered he had an expired driver’s license and more than 200 counts of missed toll payments amounting to about $12,000.

Dick Black, a Republican state senator from Virginia, traveled to Syria where he praised President Bashar Assad for his fight against the Islamic State group, even though U.S. officials have said repeatedly that Assad has lost the legitimacy to rule the war-torn country.

Margo Feaser of Longwood, Fla., was evacuated from her burning home by neighbors but then had to wait as the family German shepherd, Maxx, helped firefighters locate her husband as well as their 4-yearold and 2-year-old children in heavy smoke so they could be pulled to safety.

John Mina, police chief in Orlando, Fla., in a bid to reduce brutality complaints, directed his officers to use “only the minimal amount of force necessary” to detain suspects, adding that officers should step in if they see another officer using too much force.

Stan Rosenberg, president of Massachusetts’ Senate, said state wildlife officials made a “big mistake” by moving too quickly to establish a colony of endangered timber rattlesnakes on an uninhabited island in the Quabbin Reservoir near Belchertown.