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Michael Main, sheriff of Isabella County, Mich., apologized for accidentally leaving his handgun behind in a school gym locker room when he changed into his uniform for a weekend event where the weapon was later found by a student.
Diane Black, a Tennessee Republican congressman, and her husband, Dr. David Black, have donated $250,000 toward a $6 million goal to build a center in Chattanooga that will pay tribute to the state’s 32 Medal of Honor recipients.
Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s prime minister, met with members of the Choctaw Nation in Durant, Okla., to thank the tribe for a gift of $147 that was collected and sent to Dublin in 1847 to help feed the Irish during a potato famine.
Barbara Sherrill, 29, upset that her son was disciplined for getting into a fight at school, was arrested on accusations of threatening the middle school in Hiddenite, N.C., by telling others that police “better hope they find [the bombs] before they go off,” investigators said.
Tim Bilodeau, police chief for the University of Vermont in Burlington, said a tip led investigators to recover in Connecticut a 2-foot-long black rhinoceros horn valued at more than $100,000 that was stolen from a locked storage room last year.
Pete Luke, a major with the Hinds County, Miss., sheriff’s office, said a 59-year-old man was hospitalized after being struck in the neck by a stray bullet when a 10-year-old and a 15-year-old from Texas went target shooting while visiting relatives.
Johnny Williams, sheriff of Warren County, N.C., said deputies are searching for two assailants after a Sunday School teacher was killed and a pastor severely injured in a home-invasion robbery that ended with their house being set on fire before the intruders fled in the couple’s car.
Sadhna Kaushik, a hospital administrator in Uttar Pradesh, India, promised “strict action” after two doctors and two nurses were suspended for using the freshly amputated leg of a patient who has been injured in a bus accident as the patient’s headrest as he lay on a stretcher.
Chriswell Scott, a police spokesman in Marana, Ariz., tweeted “Don’t drive impaired, till death do we part doesn’t need any help,” after Amber Young, wearing a white, open-back dress, was arrested on impaired-driving charges after she was involved in a wreck as she drove to her wedding.