In the news
Brian Wagner, an Arkansas Game and Fish Commission biologist, was recently credited by researchers with discovering two new species of crawfish — including one named for him, Faxonius Wagneri — in the Eleven-Point River in northern Arkansas over a decade ago.
Stacey Dash, the Clueless actress who later became a conservative commentator, ended her campaign for a Southern California congressional seat about a month after it began, explaining that she believed the bitterness in politics and the rigors of campaigning and holding office would be detrimental to her family.
Francho Bradley, 59, of Frisco, Texas, told investigators that he and Adrianne Jennings, 40, were on a classified mission for the Department of Defense when they was arrested at a Tewksbury, Mass., hotel on weapons charges, Massachusetts police said.
Tiffany Stone of Camp Dennison, Ohio, was en route to the hospital when she gave birth to her third child, Ember, before her husband could stop the car in a parking lot and with her two other children watching from the back seat.
Jonathan Bartlett Robertson, 49, was arrested in Richmond, Va., after stolen items worth $250,000, including Purple Heart medals, were found stored in a house north of Prague, Okla., Oklahoma authorities said.
Michael Screnock, a Sauk County, Wis., judge and state Supreme Court candidate, resisted calls from the family of two child sex assault victims to condemn a television ad, run by a lobbying group, which criticizes a 2011 ruling by his opponent and provides enough information, the families say, to identify the victims.
John Nichols, the owner of the Crystal Beer Parlor in downtown Savannah, Ga., said whoever took a framed letter dated 1893 from his bar on St. Patrick’s Day “was probably drunk and just did it on a whim,” and he wouldn’t press charges if he gets the memorabilia back.
Jan Breaux, 45, of Raceland, La., tested above the legal limit for alcohol in her blood after, police said, she rammed a Ford F-150 into five teenagers fishing near the shoulder of a road, injuring them.
Yasman Freeman, the manager of a Sonic fast-food eatery in Gulfport, Miss., said that after a drive-thru patron blew smoke in an employee’s face, the restaurant posted a sign that says drive-thru customers won’t be served if they are smoking marijuana.