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Karen Smith, who fosters a deaf puppy named Toffee, said it was a miracle that after 30 hours of effort, volunteers were able to rescue the 7-week-old pup that had fallen into a 50-foot hole behind a house in Alabama.
Volma Overton, cousin of Richard Overton, who at 112 years old is the oldest World War II veteran in the United States, said someone obtained the Texas veteran’s Social Security and banking account numbers and used them to steal a significant amount of money.
James Mentzer, a thirdgrade teacher at a Pennsylvania school, was charged with institutional sexual assault and other counts after police said he tried to hypnotize female students, making one repeat the phrase “I will obey you, Master,” as he swung a necklace in front of her eyes.
John James, 98, a black World War II Army veteran, was commissioned in Philadelphia as a second lieutenant, 76 years after being denied the rank at officer training school in 1942 when it was against Army regulations for white soldiers to be subordinate to blacks.
Mike Benhase, owner of a Cincinnati Dunkin’ Donuts, said he would like to apologize to a homeless woman after one of his employees wrote a message on her cup that told her to stop “hanging out in-front of the store,” which resulted in the worker being fired.
Jeff Middleton, police captain in Lexington, Tenn., said a woman was injured while getting a cart in a Walmart when her gun became dislodged from its holster and fell to the ground, causing the firearm to discharge and send a bullet into the floor and fragments into her leg.
Jason Arnold, a former St. Louis-area executive, was sentenced to more than five years in prison for setting up a fictitious business with the same name as his employer and depositing his employer’s checks into its bank account, using the stolen $6.4 million for purchases such as art and wine.
Benjamin David Larson, 41, was arrested after police said he stole 14 show dogs from a van in an In-N-Out parking lot in California while the van’s owner was inside the restaurant getting lunch on his way to the annual Woofstock show.
Jairo Inswasty, 70, a math teacher at a New York high school, was arrested after being accused of giving two 16-year-old students cash for nude and revealing photos, and offering one of them an iPhone X if she’d have sex with him.