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Kent Williams, 74, a retired vice admiral who as commander of a U.S. Coast Guard patrol boat in 1969 helped turn back an attack by North Vietnamese troops on an American unit trapped on a beach, is being inducted into the Coast Guard Academy’s Hall of Heroes.
Lillian Stone, 25, initially charged with child cruelty, now faces a murder charge in the death of her 3-yearold son, who was left for about three hours locked inside a hot car in South Fulton, Ga., police said.
Barack Obama, the nation’s 44th president, showed up for jury duty Wednesday at a downtown Chicago courthouse and sat through a decades-old, 20-minute video explaining the ins and outs of jury duty but was dismissed without being chosen to hear a case.
Flora Tydings, chancellor of Tennessee’s community and technical colleges, said the system is offering a “warranty” to employers that will provide free retraining if the skill set of a new hire who graduated within the past year comes up short.
Sean Combs, the rapper and producer who announced on social media that he had changed his nickname to “Love,” as in “Brother Love,” took to Twitter and Instagram to say he was only joking, adding that he learned “You cannot play around with the Internet.”
Hayden Sanders, a sheriff’s deputy in Clackamas County, Ore., responding to a 911 emergency call that a deliveryman at a house had heard a woman inside screaming for help, discovered that the screams were from Diego, a green-and-yellow parrot.
Robert Watson, a former House minority leader in the Rhode Island Legislature, faces criminal charges after police say they found him naked with blood on his hands when they arrived to investigate reports that he had run across the street and broken into a neighbor’s home in East Greenwich.
Nicholas Shelley, sentenced in 2014 to life in prison for four killings, won’t get a new trial after an Illinois appeals court ruled that a judge who fell asleep several times during his trial didn’t harm the case because he wasn’t napping during motions or when crucial evidence was presented.
Douglas Shuttlesworth, 34, was intoxicated and thought it was Election Day when he showed up a day early at an elementary school in Harrisburg, Pa., to cast his ballot and was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence, police reported.