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Ruth Darrah, a retired teacher at the Village Elementary School in Hartland, Mich., and others taped black construction paper along walls for the 13th year in a row to create a clear path through the building so a mother duck could waddle her 11 ducklings from the school’s courtyard to a nearby pond.
Kourtney Furber of Felton, Del., has been charged with harassment after police said she called her 18- yearold ex- boyfriend’s cellphone more than 300 times in one day and also confronted him several times while he was at work.
Carolyn Lloyd, 47, of Charlotte, N. C., and her daughter, Rachel, 22, were rescued, after being lost for five days in New Zealand’s Tararua Forest Park, when a helicopter pilot spotted the large “help” signs they had made from fern fronds.
Ercilia Moncada, 41, stopped to argue with the Florida Highway Patrol trooper who had just arrested her brother, Josue Moncada, 31, for driving while intoxicated on Interstate 75 near Ocala and ended up arrested herself for drunken driving, police said.
Jose Ixcolin, 24, caught by police in Trenton, N. J., holding a stolen computer monitor about a block away from a just- burglarized business, told officers that he broke in because he wanted to see his brother in jail, investigators said.
Steve Alexander, with the Multnomah County, Ore., sheriff’s office, said a 3- year- old boy survived a fall at a hiking trail along the Columbia River Gorge that killed his 37- year- old mother when they both fell 50 feet and tumbled another 20 to 30 feet down a slope.
Gregory Alexander, police chief in Yemassee, S. C., said that 19 monkeys being raised for medical research found a loose or broken cage door to make a successful break from a facility operated by Alpha Genesis but all gradually returned after a few hours to be fed.
Lindsey Wohlman, a Colorado artist, has lent a series of paintings from her “Warhol Naked and Unlabeled” series to the Springfield Art Museum in southwest Missouri after seven of the museum’s 10 Andy Warhol prints of Campbell soup cans were stolen.
Natalie Tennant, West Virginia’s secretary of state, said voters will have to find another way to share their voting experience on social media other than by taking selfies as they cast their ballots, since electronic devices, including cellphones, aren’t allowed in the state’s voting booths.