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Greg Manteufel, 48, whose blood pressure plummeted and who lost circulation in his limbs after he was licked by a dog and contracted a rare blood infection from a bacteria that lives in dog saliva, had to have his legs and hands amputated at a Milwaukee-area hospital.
Chloe Wright, 25, of Taunton, Mass., accused of intentionally smashing her vehicle into another vehicle on Cape Cod after becoming enraged over a bumper sticker supporting President Donald Trump, pleaded innocent to vandalism and leaving the scene of an accident, prosecutors said.
Jordan Taylor, 20, who was restocking shelves at a Baton Rouge grocery when Jack Edwards, an autistic 17-year-old, began watching him, is being praised for his kindness after asking Edwards if he wanted to help, and has received more than $54,000 in college fund donations after a video of the two working together was posted online.
Artemis Kyriakopoulou coaxed a frightened stray dog out of an outdoor brick oven where the animal took shelter as a wildfire swept through the Mati district near Athens, Greece.
Ron Parsons, a U.S. attorney in Rapid City, S.D., said 19 people received sentences ranging from fines to prison time after an investigation into the illegal trafficking of body parts from eagles and other protected birds.
Brian “Scott” Martin, 37, police chief of Lipscomb, Ala., was placed on leave after a search of his house and patrol car turned up marijuana and two bongs, resulting in his arrest on drug-possession and drug-paraphernalia counts.
Donald Porter, a police spokesman in Greenville, S.C., said investigators are hoping that security video will sort out what happened at a Costco warehouse club where a 70-year-old man exchanged blows with a 72-year-old man who cut in front of him as he waited for a cheese sample.
Roman Adams, 18, is accused of felony assault after police say he pushed an 8-year-old boy off the top of a slide at a water park in Apple Valley, Minn., causing the boy to suffer multiple fractures when he fell more than 30 feet onto a concrete pad.
Grayson Salerno, 1, of Malden, Mass., wearing a T-shirt that read: “I have literally no idea what you are saying,” was driving a red toy convertible along a sidewalk when a police officer flashed his blue lights to pull him over and issue a “cuteness warning.”