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Robert W. Lee IV, a descendant of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, said he resigned as pastor of a North Carolina church after negative reactions to comments he made in support of the Black Lives Matter movement during an MTV awards show “made it clear that I was no longer welcome there.”
Danielle Palmer of Owensville, Mo., who had a freezer full of breast milk because her son, Truett, was born with a congenital heart defect and was unable to use much of the milk, donated nearly 8 gallons of it to flood victims in Texas.
Thomas Fontenot, 18, was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to grabbing the lunchbox containing a cellphone, checkbook and credit card of a bridge tender in Pierre Part, La., as the woman walked to her car at the end of her shift.
Larry Bates, 73, a former Tennessee state lawmaker convicted of mail and wire fraud for leading a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme that centered on buying and selling gold and silver coins, has been sentenced to more than 21 years behind bars.
Marc Malecek can proceed with an alienation-of-affection lawsuit filed against a physician accused of having a love affair with his wife, after the North Carolina Court of Appeals overturned a lower court that had ruled that the state law allowing such suits violates the right to free expression between consenting adults.
Virginia Paris, 55, kidnapped from Solvang, Calif., and taken to Nevada, was found four days later at a casino-hotel outside Las Vegas, said authorities, who have issued an arrest warrant for her former boyfriend.
David Crabiel said a lobster named “Passy Pete” was pulled out of the Passaggawakeag River near Belfast, Maine, and used a claw to grab onto a scroll, predicting six more weeks of summer weather in a ceremony that has been held for the past three years.
Matthew Phelps, 27, arrested on a murder charge, told a 911 operator in Raleigh, N.C., “I think I did it,” saying that he took some cold medicine before going to bed and woke up to find his 29-year-old wife on the floor dead from multiple stab wounds, police said.
Ella Russell, 5, moved to tears watching television coverage of Hurricane Harvey, got her mother to help raise enough money to turn $10 in birthday cash into $280 worth of bottled water that she gave to a Maryville, Tenn., church to send to Houston.