In the news
Richard Haskell, 71, was arrested twice in one day on charges of driving while intoxicated in Ramsey, N.J., police said, first when he was found asleep in a parked car with a bottle of alcohol and again when he drove to the Police Department to see when his car from the first arrest would be released.
Amos Yee, 18, a blogger from Singapore who was twice jailed for mocking government officials, has been released by U.S. immigration officials in Chicago after an immigration appeals court upheld his bid for asylum in the U.S.
Steve Scalise, the House majority whip from Louisiana who was shot, along with four others, at a congressional baseball team practice in June, will talk about the attack and his ongoing medical challenges in an interview Sunday on CBS’ 60 Minutes.
Bob Loomis, a rancher in Overbrook, Okla., sold Cowboy Tuff Chex, his prize longhorn bull that has a record horn span of 101 inches, to Richard and Jean Filip of Fayetteville, Texas, for $165,000.
William Hotep, 31, a worker at a Pizza Hut restaurant in Springfield, Mo., who exchanged gunfire in a “good old-fashioned gunfight” with a robber who pointed a gun at him, said he’s been suspended without pay for protecting the store.
Kellie Rudd and Margaret Flory-Nicks, former school bus drivers in Knox County, Tenn., will avoid jail time by pleading guilty to unlawful use of a portable device after both were charged with violating a new state law that bars the use of electronic devices while behind the wheel.
Jason Strong, 42, convicted in a 1999 murder and freed from prison after 15 years because of invalid evidence, will receive a $9 million settlement from the city of Waukegan, Ill., and the nine agencies that investigated the killing.
Janelle Delarosa, 36, of Pittsburgh, convicted of animal cruelty for not properly caring for an adult dog and seven puppies in her home, was ordered by an Allegheny County judge to pay $12,000 toward their veterinary care and boarding, and was barred from owning any pets for 20 years.
Chuncey Wilson, 22, stood up through a sunroof of a car being driven by Marybeth Flack, 22, and fired two shots at a vehicle they followed off a highway exit, resulting in Wilson and Flack being arrested in what police in Pelham, Ala., described as a case of road rage.