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Raimundo Atesiano, the former police chief of Biscayne Park, Fla., faces a federal indictment accusing him and two former officers of framing a 16-year-old boy for several unsolved burglaries to improve their arrest statistics.
Klaus Hidde, a 63-yearold German fisherman, was granted an exclusive license to catch Louisiana crawfish in Berlin and sell them to city restaurants — some of which have taken to calling the crustaceans “Berlin lobster” — in an effort to keep them from crowding out a native German species.
Herman Tsakhaev, 9, and Bodie Thompson, 11, earned praise from the Concord, Mass., fire captain after they used their paddle boards to help a swimmer in Walden Pond who had gotten a leg cramp and was struggling in the water.
John M. Schroder, the Louisiana treasurer, said a payout of $2.3 million in oil royalties from a man’s deceased relative, the largest return in the history of the state’s Unclaimed Property Program, was a “special case” and that payouts are usually around $900.
Candace Hopkins, a jail spokesman in Albuquerque, N.M., said the lockup needs to look at its practices after an inmate who was being held on charges including attempted murder used another inmate’s “identifier” to leave the jail.
Gisella Collazo, a Peruvian woman who had taken sanctuary in a Springfield, Mass., church in March to avoid deportation, will be able to go home to her husband and children, who are all U.S. citizens, while she pursues lawful U.S. residency, after she got a one-year stay of removal.
Christopher Cave, 26, was charged with making a false threat against a Florida car dealership, with investigators saying he told them he left a phone message threatening to “shoot up” the business because he was frustrated with the dealership’s work on his car.
Eric Richardson, 32, agreed to give up his job as a New Jersey state police trooper, prosecutors said, as part of a plea deal in a case in which he was accused of pulling over women and threatening to arrest them unless they gave him their phone numbers.
Doris Bures, the deputy speaker of Austria’s parliament, was one of only a few women to remain in the chamber during the swearing-in of Peter Pilz, a lawmaker who had originally given up his seat amid allegations of sexual harassment but then reversed course.