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James Clark IV, 32, of Abington, Pa., faces vehicular assault and other charges after prosecutors said he was speeding when his car struck a 14- year- old girl who was distracted while video-chatting as she crossed a street, sending her to the hospital with fractures and internal injuries.
Natasha Stephens, 30, of Tupelo, Miss., accused of posing as a Mississippi Highway Patrol recruit, was arrested on wire and mail fraud counts for creating an online fundraising page seeking $ 1,000 to pay for what she described as required items for her cadet class, prosecutors said.
Carl Decaluwe, the governor of Western Flanders, said a nearly intact 88- footlong World War I German submarine containing 23 bodies was found encrusted with barnacles and covered with fishing nets off the Belgian coast.
Jane Gargano, 54, a former teacher of the year in Wolcott, Conn., was charged with larceny and forgery after investigators said she took more than $ 88,000 from an elementary school’s PTA.
Chris Hernandez, a Kansas City, Mo., spokesman, said officials are trying to figure out why the body of a 53- year- old man who police believe killed himself in his pickup in an airport parking lot was undiscovered for eight months.
Richard Helterline, a police sergeant in Syracuse, N. Y., said about 40 bullets have been fired at the shatter- resistant windows of a police substation that opened in June to deter gun violence in a nearby park, adding that there have been no injuries.
Anthony Piercy, a Missouri Highway Patrol trooper, was sentenced to 10 days in jail and two years of probation after pleading guilty to negligently operating a vessel in a case in which a prisoner drowned in 2014 when he fell out of Piercy’s patrol boat while handcuffed and wearing an improperly secured life vest.
JoAnn Hampton, 60, a county commissioner in Tyler, Texas, was indicted on a felony elderly- abuse charge after investigators said she shoved a 72- year- old woman into a chair, hurting the woman’s wrist, during an argument over whose turn it was to set up communion at church.
Jeanne Casey, a spokesman for the naval hospital in Jacksonville, Fla., said several workers are no longer caring for patients after photos posted on social media showed a nurse giving the middle finger to a newborn with a caption that read, “How I currently feel about these mini Satans.”