In the news
Gov. Jerry Brown of California joined family, friends and colleagues honoring 32-year-old Cory Iverson, a state firefighter who died this month battling the largest wildfire recorded in the state’s modern history.
Judge Charles Greenhalgh ordered Christina Fay of Wolfeboro, N.H., to pay nearly $800,000 for the care of 84 filthy and sick Great Danes seized from her mansion after they were found covered in feces and urine.
Kim Montes, Florida Highway Patrol spokesman, said several hundred live tilapia and other fish spilled onto a road when a tractor-trailer rig carrying fish tanks rear-ended another vehicle, forcing troopers to close two lanes of the road for several hours to clean up the “slimy situation.”
Anthony Hetherington, 18, faces a first-degree robbery charge after Springfield, Mo., police said he went to a gas station and raised his shirt to reveal a gun tucked in his waistband, and the store manager drew his own handgun and detained Hetherington until police arrived.
Lt. Steve Farmer of the Columbus, Ohio, police said a U.S. Postal Service worker, who was under investigation and facing dismissal, fatally shot a supervisor at a suburban post office and then went to the apartment of the postal inspector in charge of the inquiry and killed her.
Lyric Swedenhjelm of Destin, Fla., said her family is trying to get her father, Jeff, who lives on the Indonesian island of Bali, to a country that has a spinal specialist after he fell from a roof while chasing a monkey that had stolen his favorite Pittsburgh Steelers cap, paralyzing him from the chest down.
Sgt. Kevan Toney, a Toledo, Ohio, police spokesman, said four teenage boys face felonious assault charges after a sandbag tossed from an interstate overpass smashed through a car windshield, killing Marquise Byrd, 22, of Warren, Mich.
Nelson Agosto was arrested for misusing the emergency 911 line, Florida police said, after the 51-yearold called dispatchers twice to complain about the size of the meal served to him at Crabby’s Seafood Shack in Stuart, telling a dispatcher in one call, “I ordered something, and it was extremely so small.”
Thomas Mould, a British army sergeant, and Sandra Hyde, a former diving instructor, who met in 2013 when Mould went on a training dive trip to the Florida Keys resort where Hyde worked, exchanged vows in an underwater wedding in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.