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Sister Margaret Ann, wearing her full habit in a photo posted on social media by police, wielded a chain saw as she helped clear downed trees in the roadways around Archbishop Coleman Carroll High School near Miami.
Sean Spicer, former White House press secretary under President Donald Trump, will join former Army intelligence officer Chelsea Manning, Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski as visiting fellows this fall at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics.
Martin Shkreli, the former hedge fund manager awaiting sentencing for defrauding investors, had his $5 million bail revoked after he offered his Facebook followers a $5,000 bounty if they grabbed a strand of Hillary Clinton’s hair during her book signing tour.
Lowrey Webster IV, 38, accused of stealing and abandoning a seafood truck before forcing an elderly couple from their car and fleeing in it, prompting a chase that ended in his arrest, was charged with carjacking and eluding officers, police in Biloxi, Miss., said.
Joseph Comstock, 31, a former ambulance technician in Gallatin, Mo., pleaded guilty to replacing vials of the painkilling drugs morphine and fentanyl with sterile water and to sometimes treating trauma patients with watered-down drugs, federal prosecutors said.
Mario Antoine of Raymore, Mo., convicted of wire fraud for persuading two dozen women to have sex with him by claiming they were auditioning for pornographic movies and then threatening to send images to family and friends if they complained about not being paid, was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Valerie Couch hopes a public plea on social media combined with help from Cleveland police will encourage a thief to return her 15-pound mini pig named Spam, which was stolen from her home along with jewelry, televisions and a camera.
Gabriel Bishop of Sellersville, Pa., escaped injury but got several tickets after his car’s GPS device led him to drive along a park bicycle path before he tumbled into the Lehigh River in Easton when the path narrowed and he tried to turn around.
Tatyanna Watkins and her boyfriend, David Knight, got into a three-way conference call with a Miami obstetrician who talked the couple through the delivery of their daughter, Destiny, when rescue teams couldn’t reach them as Hurricane Irma passed.