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Charles Keenan, suspended for 10 days without pay from his job as school superintendent in Maples Heights, Ohio, said he was just being playful when he pulled down the pants of School Board Vice President Michael White at a high school football game, an episode that was caught on video.
Christian Guerra, 19, of Hackettstown, N.J., was arrested on a charge of simple assault after police said they went to an apartment building to break up a fight between Guerra and an acquaintance over a stolen pork roll sandwich and beer.
Kenneth Nyangani, a news reporter in Harare, Zimbabwe, was detained by police after reporting that Grace Mugabe, wife of President Robert Mugabe, donated used underwear and nightgowns to supporters of the ruling party.
Jessica Gomes and Aaron Bairos, newlyweds who grew up in Massachusetts communities a few miles apart and met in high school, said they figured out “pretty early on” that they were both born on the same day at the same hospital in Taunton.
Mark Bessner, a Michigan State Police trooper, has resigned but could face criminal charges in the death of a 15-year-old Detroit boy who crashed his all-terrain vehicle after Bessner fired his stun gun at the teen, authorities said.
Leticia Gallarzo, 43, of Goliad, Texas, who had no medical training but faked being a registered nurse to get jobs at two hospitals and three nursing homes, was sentenced to 14 months in prison for making false statements related to health care, federal prosecutors said.
John Moore, school superintendent in Leeds, Ala., said the school district doesn’t plan to halt a high school band’s Christian-themed football halftime show that a parent complained to the Freedom From Religion Foundation resembles a church service.
Kevin Bolton, 43, of Hattiesburg, Miss., told police that he thought “snakes were crawling up his pants” after he crashed his vehicle through an airport fence and into a utility pole in Slidell, La., then was found in a nearby subdivision wearing only his underwear.
Daniel O’Leary, a Fire Department captain in Buffalo, N.Y., said a 12-year-old girl who broke her ankle after falling 12 feet down an open manhole while walking to school yelled for help for an hour before a passer-by heard her and alerted fire crews, which lowered a ladder so she could climb out.