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Peggy LaBossiere, 51, and her sister, Rachel Hilaire, 40, of East Bridgewater, Mass., are accused of tying down a 5-year-old girl and burning her in a voodoo ritual that the girl’s mother requested to rid the child of a demon causing her to misbehave, police said.
Charlene Harriott faces a charge of interfering with a flight crew after, federal agents said, she became violent during a flight from Dallas to Charlotte, N.C., running up the aisle on the plane and ignoring flight attendants’ instructions to sit down, resulting in the crew restraining her with zip ties and duct tape.
Nancy Nemhauser and Ludomir Jastrzebski, who own a home together in Mount Dora, Fla., owe more than $8,000 in city code-violation fines for covering their house and a perimeter wall in blue and yellow paint swirled in the style of Vincent van Gogh’s painting The Starry Night.
Kevin Carroll has been convicted in Maryland of armed robbery, assault and other charges after he stuck a GPS tracking device on a casino patron’s car and later joined an accomplice to rob the man’s home, taking $6,000.
Charles Ziemer is suing Portland, Ore., after he struck a pair of unmarked concrete islands while riding his bike home from the World Naked Bike Ride, causing him to crash and break his nose, arm and two fingers.
Samuel Moss Jr., 23, has been restored to health at a Florida hospital after his boat became disabled as he sailed from the Bahamas and he drifted on the Atlantic Ocean for 16 days, surviving on potato chips, cookies and bottled water for 12 days until a 40-foot wave wiped out the supplies.
Sonny Smith, 38, pleaded guilty to placing calls to airports in Nevada and Texas, reporting his father and brother as terrorists because they got an invitation to a family wedding and he didn’t, and he now faces up to two years in prison.
Philippe Parola, a chef, is working with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries to control invasive Asian carp by marketing them as Silverfin fish cakes and selling them nationally to restaurants, caterers and schools through food distributors.
Nijah Underwood, 35, is accused of joining her daughter, a high school freshman, in a fight with another girl on a school bus in Gwinnett County, Ga., resulting in the mother’s arrest on battery and school disruption charges.