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Prince George, 3, the son of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and third in line to the British throne, will begin his education in September at Thomas’s Battersea prep school in south London, according to Kensington Palace.
Ballenie Camacho and Bellanie Camacho, conjoined twins who were surgically separated two months ago, shortly before their first birthday, have been released from a children’s hospital in Valhalla, N.Y., with Dr. Whitney McBride calling the girls’ progress “nothing short of remarkable.”
Joseph Engles, a retired Army sergeant, was awarded the Bronze Star for his gallantry 50 years ago during the Battle of Suoi Tre in Vietnam, when he continued to man his gun although he was seriously wounded, said former Army Maj. Gen. Juilian Burns, who presented the award.
Autumn Blanchard, 11, who cut across neighbors’ properties to get to a school bus stop in Harwich, Mass., was issued three no-trespass notices, which threaten up to 30 days in jail and a $100 fine if she continues, a situation Police Chief David Guillemette later said should have been handled “with more tact.”
Agustin Hilario, 63, was charged with grand larceny and possession of stolen property on accusations that he swiped Grammy winner John Legend’s Louis Vuitton bag containing a set of $25,000 cuff links from a luggage cart at New York’s Kennedy Airport.
Douglas Carswell, 45, the only member of the U.K. Independence Party in the British Parliament’s lower chamber, has left the party to serve as an independent, saying that with the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union, the party had “achieved what we were established to do.”
Jeremy Putman, 31, was arrested by police in Winchester, Va., while carrying a sword and dressed as the Joker, a villain from the Batman comics, and was charged with wearing a mask in public.
Kiaron Thomas has been cited by police in Lakeland, Fla., after a video was shared on Facebook of him obstructing traffic as he sat in a crosswalk eating pancakes from a TV tray.
Helen Wheeker, 96, and her husband, George Nobel, 89, received a full refund from Allegiant Air after they were wheeled to the wrong gate at the airport in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and ended up in Ogdensburg, N.Y., some 600 miles away from their Grand Rapids, Mich., destination.