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Lonnie Perry, who was facing more than $200 in fines and an arrest warrant over a movie he rented in 2014 and forgot about returning when he became homeless, was helped out of his situation by a Tulsa handyman company, which went to the rental store and paid off his fines.
Chuck Lamb, 60, who has played dead on-screen 11 times and bills himself as the “Dead Body Guy,” said he would still like to appear on The Walking Dead before he retires to his home in Florida.
Ginny Simms, the director of the Southern Pines Rescue Group in Hattiesburg, Miss., said she suspects carbon monoxide from a mechanical malfunction, not hot weather, is behind the deaths of 11 dogs that were being taken to Minnesota, which were discovered after the van carrying them broke down.
Kenji Suzuki, the president of Japan’s Asahi Power Service Co., proposed the drone-based “flying umbrella” his company is developing, which uses artificial intelligence to follow users as they walk, after thinking it was “bothersome to open an umbrella when your hands are full.”
Dick McFadden, who started flying 40 years ago, joined the United Flying Octogenarians after piloting his 1950 Novian Super B airplane over Sand Hills, Fla., joining the ranks of about 1,500 pilots who’ve registered a flight on or after their 80th birthday.
Maedeh Hojabri, an 18-year-old gymnast with tens of thousands of social media followers, apologized on Iranian state TV for breaking moral norms after being detained for posting dance videos on Instagram in which she didn’t wear an Islamic headscarf.
Jeffrey Makuch, 66, is suing a dinner cruise ship in Norfolk, Va., over injuries he suffered when he fell while playing cornhole during a June 2016 cruise, claiming nonskid flooring on the deck worked too well and kept him from shifting his weight while stepping to throw a beanbag.
Maude Gorman of Massachusetts gave up her crown as Miss Plymouth County after an emcee made a joke about the #MeToo women’s movement onstage, with Gorman saying that mocking a movement that empowers survivors of sexual assault is “inappropriate,” especially by a “women’s empowerment organization.”
John Spencer of Tarentum, Pa., faces charges including felony aggravated assault by vehicle, with authorities saying he backed over his mother and a man while stealing his mother’s car, crashed it, and asked crash witnesses to drive him to a bar.