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Philip Giese, 41, a convicted felon in Orland Park, Ill., arrested on illegal-handgun counts, also was charged with illegal possession of a wild animal when police found that he kept a pet bobcat in the vacant storefront where he lived.
Patrick Gibson, 55, the scoutmaster of Troop 205 in Long Beach, Miss., was charged with embezzling between $15,000 and $20,000 in troop funds over a three-year period after another Scout leader found discrepancies in the troop’s checking account, police said.
Brandon Sanders, 23, and his ex-wife, Anna, 22, of Carthage, Mo., were each sentenced to 120 days in a prison “shock” incarceration program followed by probation after being convicted of fracturing four of their 1-month-old baby’s ribs and both legs in 2015.
Diana Emfinger, a retired educator in Vicksburg, Miss., filed a complaint with the Warren County Election Commission after an email was sent to students promising to exempt them from final exams if they voted in a March 27 election on a bond measure to renovate district schools.
Paul Moore, 21, was convicted by a British jury of attempted murder for running over a Muslim woman in Leicester, fracturing her pelvis, spine and leg, in what prosecutors described as a hate crime committed in revenge for Islamic extremist attacks.
Ken Detzner, Florida’s secretary of state, said that an offshore archaeological site on the continental shelf near Venice is protecting what appears to be a newly discovered, peat-bottomed pond that was used as a burial site by American Indians 7,000 years ago.
Bekre Abdela, 28, was arrested on a charge of attempted murder and other counts after police in Hyattsville, Md., accused him of throwing sulfuric acid on his roommate’s face and body, critically injuring her.
Brad Atkins, a pastor in Spartanburg, S.C., said a woman, worried about being carjacked, zipped a loaded handgun into a lunch bag but forgot to take it out when she dropped off her child at a church day care, where it was spotted and confiscated by a teacher.
Derrick Johnson, 21, of Waterbury, Conn., was charged with burglary, larceny and identity theft, accused of stealing a rookie police officer’s car the night the officer graduated from the police academy and then using the new officer’s credit cards to buy fast food and shop at a Walmart.