In the news
Kenneth Mullins, a veteran who began shooting toward several firefighters who forced their way into his home for a welfare check, won’t face charges after telling Cincinnati police that he thought the commotion was from an intruder.
Nantarika Chansue, leader of a veterinary surgical team in Thailand that removed more than 900 coins from the stomach of a 25- year- old green sea turtle, said she was furious that people looking for good luck didn’t realize the threat posed by coins tossed into the pool where the turtle was kept.
Paul Hagans Jr., 36, charged with aggravated assault, is facing upgraded counts after being accused of punching a man, who later died, during an argument over traffic cones and parking at a work site in Washington, D. C., police said.
Paul Robertson, a longhaul tractor- trailer driver, thought he had lost his feline traveling companion, Percy, when the cat jumped out of his rig at an Ohio truck stop, but he later discovered that Percy had clung to the rig’s undercarriage for a 400- mile ride through snow and rain.
Jason Fay, a police detective in Houston, said the new owners of a bungalow were worried after finding human remains in an attic wall, which investigators said may be those of the previous owner, who was declared missing two years ago.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former Iranian president who banned Twitter in his country while he was in office, has made his own debut on the social networking site, complete with an Englishlanguage video message and posts encouraging mercy and love.
Michael Roberts, 58, a technology company executive from Marietta, Ga., said he was testing a “nanny cam” but got a threeyear prison sentence after pleading guilty to burglary and other charges filed after a neighbor found a camera and footage of Roberts naked inside the neighbor’s closet and bathroom.
Brandon Gurley of the Brookhaven, Ga., Police Department said two men climbed through their car’s sunroof and swam to safety after their vehicle plunged into Murphey Candler Lake and began to sink.
Valentina Tereshkova, who became the first woman in space in 1963, received a painting of seagulls over the Volga River, a reference to her in- flight call sign Chaika ( Sea gull), from Russian President Vladimir Putin to mark her 80th birthday.