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Martha Hereford-Cothron, a middle school teacher in Dunedin, Fla., said her heart sank when she discovered that about 80 books, including several signed by the authors, were missing from her classroom, which was used as a shelter for Hurricane Irma evacuees.
Ebony Woody, 34, of Columbus, Ohio, faces assault and other charges after police said she drove her car onto a sidewalk to run over her daughter and then backed over the girl’s leg because the 17-year-old was walking to school after being told to stay home.
Lee Kaplan, 52, of Feasterville, Pa., was sentenced to up to 87 years in prison for multiple counts of child rape, sexual assault and other charges after a formerly Amish couple allowed him to have sexual relationships with six of their daughters, prosecutors said.
Gregory Logan, 60, a retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, was sentenced by a U.S. federal judge to 62 months in prison after pleading guilty to smuggling about 300 narwhal tusks valued at $1.5 million to $3 million into Maine using false compartments in his vehicle.
Antonio Bargallo Sr., 69, of Schenectady, N.Y., was sentenced to 21 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder for killing his 48-year-old wife by dousing her with gasoline and setting her aflame at their home.
Jon Henderson, a police officer in Paramus, N.J., used his free time to search along a highway to find the diamond engagement ring lost by Kimberly Garcia, who had dropped the ring when she was changing a flat tire.
R. Stephen Green, school superintendent in DeKalb County, Ga., said a teacher has been pulled from the classroom for using “poor judgment” after sending home a worksheet with explicit rap lyrics and asking sixth-graders to come up with their own positive replacement words.
Pedro Quezada, 49, of Wayne, N.J., who won a $338 million Powerball jackpot in 2013, has been charged with sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child who was between the ages of 11 and 14 when the assaults occurred, prosecutors said.
Susan Reitman of Rockland, Maine, said she’d rather go to jail than remove her pro-Donald Trump signs that proclaim “I Love Trump” and “He Won, Get over it,” after a code enforcement officer notified her that they need to come down because the signs are bigger than the town allows.