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The Rev. Stephen Carlsen said Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral in Indianapolis is continuing to protest Trump administration immigration policies by replacing statues of Mary, Joseph and Jesus in a cage on church grounds with a mirror so visitors can envision the pain felt by separated families.
Marsha Thomas, a middle school principal in Athens, Ga., said thieves broke into the school during the summer break and stole $30,000 in supplies and gear, including 60 tablet computers.
Dmitri Moua and Zachary Greenwald, both 16, filed a federal lawsuit after they were barred from joining the girls competitive dance teams at their suburban Minneapolis high schools, seeking to have the exclusion declared unconstitutional.
Morgan Doyle, 15, is being credited by police in Douglas, Mass., for remaining calm, locking her bedroom door, hiding under the bed and calling 911 when two men broke into her home while she was alone.
Caroline Biden, 31, a niece of former Democratic Vice President Joe Biden, apologized for racking up $110,000 in charges on a borrowed credit card, which she has since repaid, and was sentenced to two years of probation by a New York judge.
Matthew Davis, 19, faces murder and drug charges and Joseph Wilson, 19, faces evidence-tampering and drug counts after police in Conroe, Texas, said a 16-year-old girl was fatally shot while taking selfies and playing with a gun with the two men while in a Houston-area apartment.
Bud Backer, a fire chief in Edgewood, Wash., said 911 dispatchers told a 12-yearold girl how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation so she could revive her 2-year-old brother after their mother got stuck while pulling the unconscious boy out of a septic tank at their home.
Victoria Cravitz, who along with her husband was wanted in Oregon for nearly two decades in a child-abuse case, was arrested in Mississippi after an undertaker entered the name of Cravitz’s newly deceased husband into a computer and discovered that he was on the FBI’s Most Wanted List.
Martin Estrada, 31, a jail inmate in Taylor County, Texas, faces escape and other charges after deputies said he slipped off his handcuffs, smashed a patrol car’s window and climbed onto its roof as it sped down a highway toward Abilene.