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Bodo Mende, 60, and Karl Kreile, 59, who met in Berlin 38 years ago, became the first same-sex couple to legally marry in Germany, exchanging vows in a civil ceremony on the same day a law allowing same-sex marriages took effect.
Byron Scott, a former Los Angeles Lakers coach, lost an estimated $200,000 in watches, jewelry, high-end purses and cash when his Hermosa Beach, Calif., house was broken into, police said, though they don’t know if the theft is related to a string of burglaries that have hit celebrities in the area.
Angelino Alfano, Italy’s foreign minister, said the North Korean ambassador in Rome, Mun Jong Nam, had been ordered to leave, saying that isolation was “inevitable” if Pyongyang continued to push ahead with its nuclear weapons program.
Stiles Zuschlag of Lebanon, Maine, a high school senior, said he was kicked out of the Christian school he had attended since kindergarten because he is transgender, adding that he is focused on excelling at his new school.
Joan Lucid, superintendent of the Saugus Union School District in Southern California, urged parents whose children took home flutes from a nonprofit music program to bag the instruments and contact the sheriff’s office after reports that a presenter had contaminated them with bodily fluids.
Carrie Anne Allred, 34, worked in cafeterias at public schools in Springfield, Mo., for more than three years after attracting the attention of authorities, with her arrest coming just after her last day of work and the district not being notified until after she was sentenced for child pornography, officials said.
Brittany Brooks, 27, and Ashley Brooks, 29, of El Paso, Texas, were charged with injury to a child after their 4-year-old boy, who had been left in an enclosed trampoline, was mauled to death by a pack of family dogs, which officials said had been starving.
Robert Caleb Engle, a 22-year-old usher who is credited with helping stop the suspect who went on a shooting rampage at Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in Nashville, Tenn., asked for prayers for everyone, including the suspect.
Jane Kelly, a rehabilitater in Epping, N.H., said an owl that was hit by a truck, and which traveled from Massachusetts to New Hampshire wedged between the truck cab and trailer, was released after six months of rehabilitation for its shattered wings and tail feathers.