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Michael Cicconetti, a municipal judge in Painesville, Ohio, is requiring convicted drunk drivers to download ride-hailing apps such as Uber and Lyft to their mobile phones, calling it a safer, commonsense way to avoid a future drunken-driving arrest.
Charles Younger, 39, of Allentown, Pa., was sentenced to four years in prison for child endangerment after pleading guilty to providing his daughter and a friend with vodka for her 13th birthday, which led to her being hospitalized after drinking 17 shots, police said.
Naruhito, 57, the crown prince of Japan, pledged to devote himself to the role of emperor when he assumes the Chrysanthemum Throne now that Japan’s parliament has passed a law allowing Emperor Akihito, 83, to abdicate within three years.
Jack Viglianco, 15, said his heart began racing when, 20 minutes into his first shift as a swimming pool lifeguard in Lakewood, Ohio, he heard cries for help and then jumped into the water to pull a 4-year-old boy to safety.
Alain Robert, 54, known as the “French Spiderman,” scaled a 29-story hotel in Barcelona, Spain, without a safety harness, climbing the 374-foot glass and steel building in about 20 minutes, according to footage posted on social media.
Robert Kravitz, school superintendent in Englewood, N.J., said some students will need extra class time to graduate after 10 high-level employees, including a high school principal, were suspended after an audit found more than 3,000 graduation credit and grade changes had been made in the past year.
Christine Calvert and Mark Vattimo, a couple from Poway, Calif., pleaded guilty to keeping more than 170 Yorkshire terriers and Yorkie mixes in a dark room in filthy conditions and a heavy flea infestation, investigators said.
Melydia Clewell, spokesman for the Hamilton County, Tenn., district attorney, said four more people, including the 66-year-old mother of indicted Whitwell Police Chief James Easterly, have been arrested in connection with a crime ring involving stolen property, drugs and food stamps.
Michelle Henry, a Pennsylvania prosecutor, said no charges will be filed against Republican state Sen. Scott Wagner, a candidate for governor, for wresting a camera from a man who worked for a liberal opposition group and was filming Wagner’s campaign appearance at a country club.