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Lt. Gen. Darryl A. Williams, a 1983 U.S. Military Academy graduate who has held high-ranking Army posts in Europe and Asia, will become the first black officer to command West Point in its 216-year history in a ceremony set for Monday.
John Melendez, who hosts The Stuttering John Podcast, posted a three-minute recording of President Donald Trump speaking with the comedian as he posed as U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., during an Air Force One flight, raising questions about White House communication security protocols.
Ramello Robinson, 21, accused of leaving the scene of an accident that killed a 50-year-old man in a wheelchair as he crossed a street in Kansas City, Mo., had a green light but was texting on his phone at the time of the crash, police said.
Keith Scarbrough, fire chief in Cleburne, Texas, said a 29-year-old ranch hand drowned trying to rescue a calf that had fallen into a 7-foot-deep pond, saying the pond’s muddy water and the man’s wet, heavy clothing could have been factors in his death.
Ireneusz Kaluga, head of a Polish environmental group, said that a stork fitted with a mobile-phone tracking device “probably isn’t alive” after the migratory bird disappeared in Sudan and the group got a $2,650 phone bill because someone used the SIM-chip transmitter to make calls.
Joel Davis, 22, a Columbia University student who campaigned at the United Nations and elsewhere against child sexual abuse, was charged with sex crimes against children after federal authorities accused him of possessing child pornography and having sex with a 13-year-old boy.
Dustin Hughes, 26, of Cutler Bay, Fla., pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime for phoning in a profanity-laced bomb threat to a mosque and faces up to 20 years in prison, prosecutors said.
Joseph Perkins, 31, accused of violating his probation, is being sought by police in Franklin, Tenn., on felony evading and other counts after he reportedly slipped his handcuff-bound arms from behind his back to his front, assaulted a state trooper and ran off as he was being taken to jail.
Derek Turnage, coroner in Pearl River County, Miss., said a 24-year-old man who rushed to save his 3-year-old daughter when she climbed onto a tractor and started the engine was killed when he was crushed underneath as the tractor rolled forward.