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David Jenkins, 46, a Cincinnati police officer, pleaded guilty to drinking alcohol during firearms training at a gun range, a violation of his probation from an earlier disorderly-conduct conviction, and was ordered to get into a treatment program and to wear an alcohol monitor.
Steve Scalise, the Louisiana Republican congressman who suffered damage to his bones and internal organs in June after being shot in an attack at a congressional baseball team practice, will undergo surgery today as he continues his recovery.
Deyshia Hargrave, a teacher in Vermilion Parish, La., was handcuffed and briefly jailed after asking about teacher pay at a school board meeting when the board president ruled her out of order, saying the public comment period was for comments, not questions.
Matt Beaudreau said that when his dog, River, kept barking around 2 a.m., he first dismissed it until he and his wife smelled smoke in their south St. Louis County, Mo., home, leading them to wake up their three children and get out just ahead of a fast-moving fire.
Eric Rommal, chief of the FBI’s New Orleans office, said the only existing rifle that can be traced to the 1814-15 Battle of New Orleans is back in a museum after it was recovered from people who bought it in 1982 not realizing it was stolen.
Michael Roehr, 50, of San Angelo, Texas, faces burglary and drug charges after police said he broke into a storage unit to steal memorabilia, including shirts, records, action figures and magazines, collected over 40 years by a devoted fan of the rock group Kiss.
Rayna Fillios, 22, now facing armed robbery and other counts, was topless when she opened her front door as she and a knife-wielding accomplice attempted to rob a man she had invited over, who ignored the distraction and refused to hand over any money, said police in Harahan, La.
Cynthia Gray Hathaway, a Detroit judge, said she’s “trying to get to the bottom” of why Leroy Moon, 78, has yet to be sentenced for manslaughter, six years after he pleaded no contest to the charge in a deal with prosecutors that called for a year in jail.
Nan Hauser, a Mainebased marine biologist, shared on social media a video she believes shows a 25-ton humpback whale nudging and pushing her to shield her from a 15-foot tiger shark as she was doing research off the Cook Islands in the South Pacific.