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Brian Schulz and his wife, Maria, of New Jersey were married in a Monmouth County Courthouse restroom after the groom’s mother suffered an asthma attack and was carried there, where sheriff’s officers administered oxygen during the ceremony and called medical personnel.
Shishuai Li, a 25-year-old graduate student at Brown University, faces charges over accusations that he told a Florida woman he wanted to open a school for poor children in Dubai, then used the $30,000 she donated to pay for his tuition and living expenses, said authorities in Providence, R.I.
Marvin Jacob Lee, 29, will serve a dozen years in prison for shooting into a group of people, killing a man, who had stopped to help free his stranded car during a snowstorm in Catawba County, N.C.
James Chelekis , a 32-year-old former math teacher, was sentenced to 30-60 years in prison for slashing his wife’s throat after she discovered that he was having an affair with someone who turned out to be a middle-school student, Michigan authorities said.
Tricia Bentley, with the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences in Texas, said it appears that Mary Cerruti, who was 61 when she was reported missing in February 2015, “accidentally fell from her attic” and became trapped in the wall of her Houston house, and new homeowners found her remains last March.
Ryan Michael Stepanian, 25, faces bank-robbery charges after cabdriver George Lyon recognized Stepanian’s photo on social media and told police that he had taken Stepanian to a Charles Town, W.Va., bank and later dropped him off at a park.
Andrew Pleviak, an immigration agent, faces federal charges after Deb Farris, a Wichita, Kan., television news anchor, told police that Pleviak was sending her sensitive law enforcement material and text messages that were sexual in nature, according to documents.
David deBerardinis, 56, of Shreveport hired a professional makeup artist and disguised himself as an Orthodox Jewish businessman in a scheme to defraud investors and banks out of more than $96 million, according to a federal indictment.
Michelle Dupont, whose 1-year-old cat, Christopher, required a week of care after a fire that destroyed Dupont’s Massachusetts apartment, won’t have to pay the $623 veterinary bill because an anonymous donor took care of it.