In the news
Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, was arrested on a disorderly conduct offense after blasting jet noise from a mobile public address system in Burlington, Vt., to protest a plan to allow National Guard F-35 fighters to be based at a nearby airport.
Ksenia Sobchak, a Russian presidential candidate who threw water on rival Vladimir Zhirinovsky during a televised debate, was days later doused with water outside a Moscow hotel by a man who said, “This is for Zhirinovsky,” Sobchak’s campaign office said.
Andres Avelino Anduaga, 66, of Tijuana, Mexico, pleaded guilty in a San Diego courtroom to theft of public property and agreed to pay back the more than $360,000 in U.S. government benefits he stole over four decades after using a fake birth certificate to assume the identity of an American citizen.
Ed Pawlowski, the Allentown, Pa., mayor who was convicted on dozens of corruption charges, has asked his supporters to join in a letter-writing campaign in an attempt to persuade the judge to impose a lenient sentence.
Moussa Mustafa Moussa, the only candidate on the ballot to run against Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in this month’s election, was the focus of a rally for which no outside supporters showed up, with the event ending after several campaign workers held posters of Moussa during a 100-yard march in downtown Cairo.
Javier Salazar, the sheriff of Bexar County, Texas, said a jailer has been placed on administrative leave after three murder suspects briefly escaped the San Antonio jail, getting a ride from one of the fugitives’ ex-girlfriends to a fast-food restaurant before she called authorities and revealed the men’s location.
Lloyd Gunton, 17, of Llantrisant, Wales, was sentenced to at least 11 years in prison for plotting an Islamic State-inspired attack on targets that included Justin Bieber’s 2017 concert in the capital, Cardiff.
Sgt. Mark Hollbrook of the Houston Police Department, after a man who put on a bullet-resistant vest at a party was killed by another partygoer who fired a shot at him, said it’s unusual for people to put on body armor and play with guns but that “these things happen sometimes.”
Felix Shirley was sentenced to life in prison, plus five years, after a jury convicted him of killing a woman in Fulton County, Ga., who propositioned him for sex but rejected him when he offered $8.