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Patrick Little, a Senate candidate who praised Adolf Hitler and who runs a campaign website advocating for “limiting representation of Jews in the government,” was kicked out of the California Republican Party’s convention in San Diego, the state GOP spokesman said.

Don Gorske, 64, a retired Wisconsin prison guard, has eaten his 30,000th Big Mac, saying he’s kept most of the boxes or receipts or has made specific notes in calendars that he’s kept since he had his first Big Mac on May 17, 1972.

Brian Bognatz, the police chief in Carbondale, Pa., said a man who acknowledged stabbing and strangling 13 or 14 cats and two dogs and then setting his house on fire, believing it was infested with mites and that burning it down would solve the problem, has a history of mental illness and was being evaluated at a hospital.

Carol Hepburn, animal welfare officer in Amherst, Mass., said police got permission to kill a pet boa constrictor after a pet sitter called to report that the snake had escaped from its tank and wrapped itself around a puppy, killing the dog.

Butch Ballow, 75, a Texas man who spent years in Mexico as a fugitive, has been sentenced to 40 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $37 million in restitution after pleading guilty to running a scheme that bilked more than 500 investors.

Chauncey Wulf, a senior at a high school in Illinois who is partially paralyzed and has to use a wheelchair, was listed as “most accident prone” in the school’s yearbook, drawing complaints from Wulf and leading the school to reprint the books.

Carlos Campos, Atlanta police spokesman, said officers at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport are on alert after authorities said two teens approached a woman in her car parked near the airport, attacked her and stole her car.

Jess Herbst, who became mayor of New Hope, Texas, when her predecessor died, lost her election bid for a full two-year term after running to become the state’s first transgender elected official.