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Sean Hannity’s Twitter account was “briefly compromised,” a spokesman for the social media company said, and the conservative TV host’s page became inaccessible for a few hours, prompting some users to blame a conspiratorial “deep state” and others to theorize that a rogue Twitter employee deactivated the account, as one did in November to President Donald Trump’s account.
Dani Galloway, who leads New Orleans’ Public Works Department, asked Mardi Gras revelers to try to keep their beads out of storm drains this year, after more than 46 tons of beads were removed from catch basins along a five-block stretch of St. Charles Avenue.
Darius Foreman was released from a Baltimore hospital on his 13th birthday after undergoing neurosurgery to remove a 6-inch-long metal screw that lodged in his skull when he fell while building a treehouse.
Steve Patterson, a Chardon, Ohio, middle school science teacher, said he was joking when he told a student to “go back to your country” after she corrected his pronunciation of her name, but the school district has suspended Patterson over the remark.
Cpl. Art Madden of the Pasco County, Fla., sheriff’s office, was caught on video driving beside a runaway horse on a busy road north of Tampa and politely asking it to “please stop,” to no avail, before he eventually captured the mare in a residential area.
Brandon Clabes, the police chief of Midwest City, Okla., said a 17-year-old high school student faces childpornography charges after he posted nude photos of students on a Snapchat page, then told school administrators he would post more if they didn’t restore the school’s Wi-Fi access.
Edward Burns, 48, of Ozark, Mo., will go to trial in a road rage incident in which he is accused of pointing a gun at a Democratic activist whose political bumper stickers he found “stupid,” including ones opposing President Donald Trump, court documents show.
Willie Drake of Columbus, Ga., was arrested after he began “screaming obscenities and insulting” employees at a Waffle House in Macon when they told him they didn’t have the barbecue sauce he requested, authorities said.
Robert Leibowitz, 60, a father of five in New Jersey whose T-shirt reading “In Need of Kidney” went viral, has received a lifesaving transplant from a stranger from Indiana and says he is now “walking on clouds.”