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Kolby Schroder, 27, of Staatsburg, N.Y., got a ticket for reckless driving and other offenses after he passed a police cruiser at 140 mph before slamming into the rear of another car on a highway in Redhook, N.Y., police said.
Neil Gorsuch not only replaced Antonin Scalia as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, but he also got Scalia’s office, which included the mounted head of an elk, nicknamed “Leroy,” that Scalia shot in Colorado in 2003 and that Gorsuch has agreed to let stay.
Dorsa Derakhshani, 19, an Iranian chess player who was banned from competing for her home country because she didn’t wear an Islamic headscarf when she attended an international competition in Gibraltar, has accepted a scholarship to attend St. Louis University in Missouri.
Roman Clark, a spokesman for the Baltimore Fire Department, said two students and three teachers were hospitalized with stomach ailments and their high school was evacuated while firefighters hunted the source of a strong smell that turned out to be pumpkin spice air freshener in a classroom.
Kane Gamble, 18, has pleaded guilty in a British court to trying to hack into the computers of the director of the CIA and other U.S. government officials in 2015 and 2016 as part of a group of hackers called “Crackas With Attitude.”
Ricky McMillen, 57, of Donegal, Pa., accused of impersonating a police officer and flashing dashboard lights to mimic a police speed trap, told investigators that he was trying to slow vehicles that have sped past his rural home for years, killing deer and endangering people.
Anthony Sanders, 33, of Watauga, Texas, no longer faces a murder charge in the 2015 death of his 2-year-old daughter because her now7-year-old brother recently told his mom that he accidentally rolled a heavy pillow onto the girl’s face and was unable to move it before she smothered.
John Dunbar said road construction on a Tulsa highway prevented him from pulling over as he drove his wife, Cheyenne, to the hospital, and she delivered their daughter, DelilahMae, on her own in the moving car.
Don Hineman, the Republican majority leader of the Kansas House, said it’s time for lawmakers to look at setting an age requirement for candidates after a fourth teenager announced that he will join nearly 20 other candidates running for governor.