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Larry Nassar, 54, convicted of molesting several girls and young women while he was a gymnastics doctor at Michigan State University and accused by hundreds of others, has been transferred to a federal prison in Tucson, Ariz., prison records show.
Joe Baeza, a police spokesman in Laredo, Texas, said six Houston men were arrested after robbing a worker servicing an outdoor ATM, then fleeing to a border checkpoint where authorities found $88,000 in the trunk of their car.
Scott Small, chief inspector with the Philadelphia Police Department, said Jamal Bennett, 26, who had just been released from prison on a probation violation for a weapons charge, was shot and critically injured when he attacked a 66-year-old prison guard as the guard left work for the day.
Shawn Nelson, 19, of Rocky Mount, N.C., tried to run off with $20,000 worth of jewelry from a Jersey City mall store but was captured by two Port Authority officers who happened to be eating lunch nearby, authorities said.
Ryan Donahue , a 36-year-old Phoenix firefighter of 11 years, was arrested after breaking into fire stations while off duty and stealing from colleagues, often while crews were out on calls, police said.
Ann Louise Wagner, the mayor of Spartansburg, Pa., told the Corry Journal that she stands by her town’s volunteer fire agency’s election of chief Roger Gilbert Jr., who was convicted in 2001 of sexual abuse of a 4-year-old girl and who told the newspaper that he has changed his life for the better and now spends “every day helping people.”
Dustin Gray, 29, told the Bangor Daily News that his 11-month-old Labrador mix, Clover, was being treated for severe puncture wounds after a bear attacked her, prompting Gray, who is 6 feet 5 inches tall, to punch and kick the bear until it fled.
Benjamin Brittain,a 29-year-old former economics teacher at a high school in Glen Allen, Va., faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to sending a naked photo of himself to a 16-year-old student in 2016.
Tanner Broadwell, Nikki Walsh and the couple’s pet pug escaped injury after their 28-foot sailboat capsized near Madeira Beach off the coast of Florida, but the two lost everything in the accident just two days after abandoning their workaday lives in Colorado for a once-in-a-lifetime adventure, news outlets reported.