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Jesse Hernandez, 13, was rescued after spending more than 12 hours in a Los Angeles sewer line when he fell through wooden planks covering an access portal and was swept away, prompting a frantic search using cameras propped on flotation devices.
Ethan Crouch, 20, who avoided prison for drunkenly striking and killing four pedestrians in 2013 as a 16-year-old by arguing his irresponsibility was a result of his entitled upbringing, has been released after serving nearly two years in a Texas jail on a probation violation.
Amanda Soto, 33, wife of U.S. Rep. Darren Soto, D-Fla., was charged with disorderly intoxication after getting into an argument with her mother at Walt Disney World in Orlando, which her husband attributed to her recently stopping medication used to treat her depression.
Mihaela Gird, a police spokesman in Deveselu, Romania, said seven U.S. sailors based at a nearby U.S. missile defense site “were noisy, and measures were taken to calm the tense situation,” resulting in five of the sailors being collectively fined $874 for refusing to pay their bar tab.
Wade Betters, a police sergeant in Bangor, Maine, said Monday that police don’t know why about a dozen day care workers complained about feeling high after eating Valentine’s Day cookies when none of the remaining cookies tested positive for any illicit substances.
Jacob Moore, 28, a police officer in Buena Vista, Va., rushed into a burning house first to get an elderly woman out, a second time to find her husband, and then a third time to rescue their dog, Zoey, before he was handed a fire hose and helped extinguish the blaze.
Erica Jones, a family spokesman, said a 5-year-old St. Louis boy who found his father’s gun while looking for candy didn’t know the difference between it and a toy gun when he fired a round that struck his 7-yearold brother, who later died at a hospital.
Dr. Danni Shemanski, a veterinarian in Hilton, N.Y., is teaching a dog and human exercise class she calls “doga,” which she says provides people-pet bonding time and a chance for dogs to feel “important.”
Becky Smith, 61, and Larry Spiering, 69, who met a decade ago at a supermarket in Lower Burrell, Pa., when he walked up and gave her a piece of paper with his name and phone number on it, got married in the grocery aisle where they met.