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Ricky Wright, 36, arrested on kidnapping and vehicle-theft charges, survived being shot in the head by a woman who pulled a gun out of a glove box when Wright reportedly jumped into her SUV at a gas station in Dallas and tried to drive off with her two children inside, police said.
Richard Overton of Austin, Texas, the 112-yearold who had his checking account drained by thieves who had stolen his Social Security and bank account numbers, has been reimbursed for the lost funds by Bank of America as the bank and police investigate.
Bruce Williams, 29, of Albany, N.Y., an autistic man and former Eagle Scout, relied on his scouting skills to find drinkable water and stay safe while lost in the Adirondack woods for 50 hours during a heat wave, forest rangers and family members said.
Mike Koval, police chief in Madison, Wis., said a 19-year-old man who flipped his car and then fled the scene was ticketed after he told police he was just passing by the wreck as an “uninvolved jogger.”
Ahmed Burhan Mohamed, 17, of New Brighton, Minn., is the first American to win the Dubai International Holy Koran award, defeating more than 100 others in a competition held in the United Arab Emirates, earning a perfect score reciting random verses of the Koran from memory.
Elise Conroy, 27, of Roxbury Township, N.J., facing an attempted-murder charge on accusations that she tried to poison her 83-year-old grandmother by spiking her juice with antifreeze in revenge for years of mistreatment, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in a deal, prosecutors said.
David Gorey, 52, a motorcyclist seriously injured in a crash along a rural road in Anson, Maine, was rescued when a couple out for a walk heard his cries for help and called police after he had spent nearly 11 hours stranded alone in the woods.
Casey Moreland, a former Nashville, Tenn., judge who was due $58,203.48 annually after serving decades on the bench, will lose his pension after pleading guilty to federal charges that included witness tampering, obstruction of justice and theft of federal funds.
Esmeralda Garza, 29, of Corpus Christi, Texas, was arrested on charges that she sold her 7-year-old son and was trying to sell her two daughters, ages 2 and 3, after agents carrying out a raid found the son at a drug house.