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Pam Wood and her husband, Bruce, whose company offers hot-air balloon rides near Aspen, Colo., estimate that they lost between $15,000 and $20,000 in income when the Secret Service temporarily blocked flights because Vice President Mike Pence and his family were vacationing nearby.
Mike Chapman, sheriff of Loudoun County, Va., cautioned people about the “dangers of walking and playing on frozen ponds and rivers,” after a group of young people in an SUV drove onto a partially frozen part of the Potomac River and had to be rescued when the ice gave way.
Nick Merrill, a spokesman for Bill and Hillary Clinton, said “all is OK” after a small, quickly extinguished fire started in a building used by the Secret Service near the Clintons’ residence in Chappaqua, N.Y.
Fernando del Valle Villalobos, 25, said he was astonished to see a fellow passenger who was fed up with waiting to get off a delayed Ryanair flight from London to Malaga, Spain, “very calmly” open an emergency exit and jump onto a wing after the plane landed.
Vito Perillo, 93-yearold World War II veteran, was sworn in as mayor of Tinton Falls, N.J., after he wore out two pairs of shoes campaigning door to door to upset the incumbent, a longtime city official who over the years had served in several posts.
Joe Ganim, 58, an ex-convict who is mayor of Bridgeport, Conn., was a passenger in a vehicle stopped by police for going 87 mph on an interstate shortly after Ganim filed paperwork to join a crowded field seeking the Democratic nomination to run for governor.
Brian Ingberg, owner of a bar in Copenhagen, Denmark, said thieves made off with some Russo-Baltique vodka in a bottle made of 6.6 pounds of gold and an equal amount of silver, with a diamond-encrusted cap and resembling a vintage car grille, valued at $1.3 million.
Bruce Smith, a former Boston police detective, faces a year of probation and a $7,500 fine after pleading guilty to claiming to be on official police business so he could take his gun on planes during personal trips and allowing a friend to bypass airport security.
Anthony Guglielmi,a Chicago police spokesman, said a 27-year-old woman was wounded in the arm as she argued with a woman seated in a car who pulled a gun and fired several shots, an occurrence that was livestreamed on Facebook.