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Jesse Duplantis, a Louisiana-based prosperity gospel televangelist, is asking disciples to “pray about becoming a partner” to his mission to obtain a $54 million private jet, saying Jesus Christ “wouldn’t be riding a donkey” today — “he’d be in an airplane flying all over the world.”
Andrew Emery, 9, spent two hours at a truck dealership in Greenwood, S.C., selling lemonade and #TeamDylan T-shirts to raise $5,860 to help his parents pay medical bills for his infant brother, Dylan, who has a rare and often fatal neurological condition.
Steve Aldrich, police chief in Holly Hill, Fla., said pizza shop worker Heriberto Feliciano was likely justified in fatally shooting a man wearing a clown mask who attacked Feliciano as he locked up for the night.
Christian Bales, valedictorian at a Catholic high school in Covington, Ky., was barred by the diocese from giving his commencement address because it was not in keeping with Catholic teachings, but he used a bullhorn after the ceremony to give his speech about the power of students to change the world.
Tamara Malphurs, a captain with the beach safety and rescue team in Volusia County, Fla., said a 52-year-old Mount Dora man was doing some catchand-release fishing in Ponce Inlet when he reeled in and then freed a 3-foot lemon shark that promptly turned and nipped him in the foot before swimming away.
Jeff Nawfel, a fire captain in Wells, Maine, climbed a ladder and got a couple of wet kisses before he was able to coax a stranded husky back into a house after the dog made its way through an upstairs window onto the roof.
Jenn Thomas, director of an animal shelter in Ross County, Ohio, said she’s received nearly 100 applications from people who want to adopt a 5-month-old puppy that was found in a cage with “Free” and “Good home only” scrawled in permanent marker on its fur.
Hugh Clements, police chief in Providence, R.I., said a 45-year-old man who was “fooling around” trying to ride an escalator rail at a shopping mall lost his balance, fell one floor and died when he hit his head on a food court table.
John Boyle, a Boston police sergeant, said an investigation is underway after a woman drove her car a halfmile to a police substation after finding a bloody goat head on the hood along with a photo of herself tucked under a windshield-wiper blade.