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Marie Wandel, a Danish diplomat, snatched a camera and jewelry out of the hands of a burglar whom she confronted and chased out of her Harlem apartment after she got up to investigate a late- night noise, New York City police said.
Jake Bowers said he wanted to set a good example for his children when he gave police in Worthington, Ohio, a bag found on the side of the road and containing $ 14,000 in cash, whose owner said the bag likely fell off the roof of his vehicle when he drove away from a car dealership.
Matthew Phillips, 25, of Seminary, Miss., was charged with murder in the stabbing of 40- year- old Joseph Stringer after the two men got into an alcohol- fueled fight over a flashlight, Jones County Sheriff Alex Hodge said.
Hazel Porter, of Bucktown, La., said a 7- foot alligator appeared to be “just chilling” when it crawled out of a storm drain behind an elementary school, resulting in several residents lassoing it with a rope until professional wildlife wranglers could arrive at the scene.
Jackson Rosinski, 17, a high school senior in Starkville, Miss., who hasn’t missed a day of school since starting kindergarten, amassing nearly 2,400 days of hitting the books without a sick or skip day, said that while there were times he didn’t want to go, “Once you get there, it’s OK.”
Danielle Baggett, 37, of Sarasota, Fla., was charged with running a nuisance dwelling after Sarasota County sheriff ’ s deputies responded to seven overdoses, including her own, at a drug flop house where she charged a “cover fee of drugs” to enter, authorities said.
Stephen Ayers, administrator of the Capitol in Washington, D. C., identified as Matthew McClanahan the maintenance worker who died after being struck by a large branch that fell from an elm tree into an intersection near the Capitol.
Mark Norris, the Tennessee Senate majority leader, said he abandoned a bill to prohibit passengers from having open alcohol bottles or cans in vehicles traveling on state roads because of a lack of support from other lawmakers and to avoid a “distraction” from highway funding needs.
Brian Gadwell and Steven Rauser, two Detroit police officers, along with an emergency worker jumped into the frigid Detroit River to rescue a pregnant woman who later gave birth, with the aid of a mail boat pilot who helped pull the woman to safety.