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Shane Zoller, 22, said his 4-year-old daughter, Yanelly, died from a gunshot wound when she accidentally fired a handgun as she reached into her grandmother’s purse for a piece of candy while visiting her grandparents in Tampa, Fla.
Renata Foreman, 37, of Independence, La., was indicted on federal wire-fraud and identity-theft charges after prosecutors said she used stolen IDs to submit 55 claims for disaster unemployment assistance totaling more than $150,000 after Louisiana’s 2016 floods.
Edward McCarty, 38, who spins tunes as a wedding DJ, told Pennsylvania State Police he was having money problems when he was arrested on accusations of stealing gift envelopes containing at least $600 at a wedding where he worked in Yukon, Pa.
Sakshi Maharaj, 61, a member of India’s Parliament, said that couples who cuddle or kiss in public should be thrown in jail because such “vulgar” behavior can lead to rape, saying it’s appropriate to put offenders behind bars “before anything wrong occurs.”
Edward Bass, a Texas billionaire, is giving $30 million to the University of Arizona to support the Biosphere 2 project, allowing research to continue into global climate change and other “grand scientific challenges,” facility director Joaquin Ruiz said.
Sowann Suy, owner of a gasoline station in Cocoa, Fla., chased down and fired a warning shot at a man who stole some beer to force the suspect to surrender, marking the fourth time that Suy has used his weapon in defense of his store.
Jason Olsen, a Salt Lake City school district spokesman, said a city high school that lies along a migratory route had to cancel its after-school programs so workers could round up about 300 bats that had infested the building, including some found hanging in classrooms.
Tony Abbott, the former Australian prime minister who two years ago supported calls for a national vote on legalizing same-sex marriage, got a swollen lip when he was head-butted by a gay-rights advocate after attending an anti-gay marriage luncheon in Hobart.
Sonya Nelson said her 2-week-old niece, Life Lynn DeKlyen, born prematurely when her cancer-stricken mother shunned chemotherapy during pregnancy and later died, “took a turn for the worse” and passed away at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor.