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Samuli Huuhtanen — the CEO of RPS Brewing in Finland, which released a limited-edition lager depicting cartoon U.S. and Russian presidents on its label ahead of today’s summit between President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin — said “a couple of good beers can help any negotiations,” especially if followed by a visit to a Finnish sauna.
Alejandro Alvarez-Villegas, whom police have accused of attacking his wife with a chain saw in front of their children at their Los Angeles-area home, is a “serial immigration violator” who has been deported from the U.S. 11 times, according to immigration officials.
Bryan Broehm, a police detective in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., was the first to suggest that 71-year-old Alan Abrahamson was not a murder victim, with the department’s examination of Abrahamson’s phone and Web searches eventually leading them to conclude that he used a weather balloon to carry off the gun he used to kill himself.
Capt. Chris Vestal of the Sacramento, Calif., Fire Department said a firetruck, stolen from the scene of a small grass fire and taken on an 85-mile, two-hour chase before authorities stopped the vehicle and arrested two suspects, had to be towed back to the department for extensive repairs.
Brad Blankenship, a plant supervisor with the Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati, said he and his co-workers have collected items ranging from a baseball to eyeglasses and cellphones that make their way through the sewer system, displaying some of the more interesting items on a shelf in the plant (after sanitizing them).
Garivaldi Castillo and Julio Salcedo pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of a Bronx fire captain, prosecutors said, in which their marijuana grow house exploded after a gas leak and a section of its slate roof hit the firefighter in the head.
Mike Purzycki, the mayor of Wilmington, Del., apologized and said city officials were wrong to use a policy against wearing cotton in city pools to bar a group of Muslim kids, even though the cotton ban wasn’t posted.
Johnnie Thompson of Decatur, Ga., who is paralyzed from the waist down, faces charges of false imprisonment and aggravated assault, with police saying he paid an exotic dancer to perform at his home and then zip-tied her, demanded sex and shot her with a stun gun.