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Meagan Hartmann, a rookie New York State Police trooper, will work out of a station about 60 miles from the one where her mother, Trooper Bethany Lamphere, is stationed, making them the agency’s first mother and daughter to serve in uniform at the same time.

Billy Lewis, 65, of Wedgefield, S.C., was arrested on an attempted-murder charge after, police said, he began stabbing his cousin during a church service because he thought the victim, who is expected to survive the attack, had put a curse on him.

Evan Stafford, 26, of Niagara Falls, N.Y., was arrested on assault, attempted robbery and other charges after punching a television news reporter and photographer as a producer back at their station monitored the confrontation on a live feed from the opening of a public art display, police said.

Cruz Bazan of Harlingen, Texas, a fugitive on Texas’ 10 most-wanted sex offenders list since May 2015, was arrested in Matamoros, Mexico, and is now in a Brownsville jail for violating offender-registration and probation rules.

Eva Malecki, spokesman for Washington, D.C.’s Capitol Police, said the agency will destroy the gyrocopter flown by government-corruption protester Douglas Hughes from Pennsylvania through restricted airspace to the lawn of the U.S. Capitol.

Jim Salmon, a Delaware River and Bay Authority spokesman, said a fire caused by a mechanical problem on a recreational vehicle carrying marijuana-laced lollipops distributed by Weed World Candies burned so hot that it damaged the road surface of the Delaware Memorial Bridge.

Ayana Kinnel, spokesman for the Mississippi NAACP, said Stone County High School officials are mishandling a potential hate crime in which several white students are accused of putting a noose around the neck of a black football player and then yanking it backward.

Mahmoud Elhassan, a taxi driver from Woodbridge, Va., pleaded guilty to federal charges that he tried to help a friend travel to Syria so he could join the Islamic State group but still faces trial on a terror conspiracy count, prosecutors said.

Emma Raine, widowed three times, was sentenced to life in prison in the 2006 slaying of her second husband, Ernest Smith, at their New Orleans home, in a case complicated by the 2011 death of her third husband, implicated in Smith’s death, in which Raine is also a suspect but has not been charged, prosecutors said.