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Luce Raneau of Miami-Dade County, Fla., said she thought a bomb had gone off when an 80-pound inflatable raft fell off a passing Canadian air force search-and-rescue helicopter and crashed into her home’s roof, leaving her covered in wood and dust.
Olav Njolstad, secretary of the Norwegian committee that awards the Nobel Prizes, said police were called after someone, for the second time, used a stolen identity to nominate U.S. President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Kathryn Miller, 31, a school crossing guard in Selinsgrove, Pa., since 2012, was arrested on drug counts after police said she sold marijuana to an informant four times in February, including twice while helping children cross at an intersection.
Keely Hightower, 24, of Pinellas Park, Fla., filed an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against a cellphone store employee who worked on her phone, accusing the worker of secretly downloading a video that she kept on her phone showing her engaging in sex acts.
Christopher Bianchi, 31, of Cumming, Ga., part of a team that cleans up crime scenes, was arrested and accused of theft after an envelope containing cash disappeared from the bedroom of a home in Thompson Station, Tenn., where a homicide had occurred, authorities said.
Timothy Lee, a school superintendent in Lenox, Mass., said that more than half of the district’s 438 middle and high school students voted to keep the “Millionaires” mascot name despite some complaints that it’s divisive because it doesn’t reflect the town’s economy.
William Wyman, 41, of Portland, Maine, was arrested for the second time in four months on charges related to driving stolen U-Haul trucks, after police said he led them on a high speed chase last weekend.
Ben Jaffe, creative director for the Preservation Hall in New Orleans, said someone stole the hall’s signature brass sousaphone, a version of a tuba used by marching bands that can cost up to $13,000, which he bought to replace one lost to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Kenny Bachman, out partying with some friends in West Virginia, called for an Uber ride to take him back to where he was staying near the West Virginia University campus in Morgantown, but woke up 300 miles away after drunkenly telling the driver to take him to his hometown in Gloucester County, N.J., a $1,635 trip.