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Jerome Smith, a Marine veteran, and his dog Jo-Jo, a service animal that helps Smith manage his post-traumatic stress disorder, got an apology after the pair were asked to leave a crowded bar in Grand Rapids, Mich., on the day before Veterans Day.
Roslyn Corrigan is the latest woman to openly accuse former President George H.W. Bush of inappropriately touching her, saying in an interview that when she was 16, Bush grabbed her buttocks as she posed for a photo with him in 2003 at a gathering of CIA officers north of Houston.
Rand Paul, the Republican senator from Kentucky, announced on Twitter his return to the Senate on Monday, 10 days after he was tackled by a neighbor while doing yardwork, leaving Paul with six broken ribs.
Troy Stevenson, executive director of Freedom Oklahoma, which advocates for people identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer, said someone fired bullets at the group’s Oklahoma City office, shattering a reinforced glass panel and damaging four others.
Terry Roak of Chattanooga, Tenn., said two rodeo horses and a trailer stolen from a parking lot in McDonough, Ga., are in good condition after being found two days later when a person who had seen a news report about the theft spotted the trailer in a parking lot about 15 miles away.
Easton Lowery, 8, said he felt lucky he wasn’t bitten but that he lost his “best friend” when an alligator grabbed his pet, Beignet, and dragged it underwater as Easton and his mother were throwing sticks to their dogs at a lake in Gainesville, Fla.
Brandon Vicks, 27, of Atlanta was jailed, accused of reckless conduct, when a gun Vicks was cleaning discharged, sending a round that ricocheted off the floor and struck his 7-year-old stepson in the hand and arm and his 10-year-old stepson above the right eye, police said.
Allan Simmons, 60, a star British Scrabble player, has been banned from competition for three years after the Association of British Scrabble Players determined that he broke tournament rules by not showing an empty hand before drawing new letter tiles.
Will Powers of Farmington Hills, Mich., said two of his cats that hold Guinness World Records, Arcturus for being the tallest domestic feline at 19 inches and Cygnus for having the longest tail at 17 inches, are both missing after a fire gutted his house.