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Bill Citty, Oklahoma City’s police chief, wants the city to reduce its penalty for possessing less than 3 ounces of marijuana from a $1,200 fine and six months in jail to a $400 fine with no time behind bars to ease chronic jail overcrowding.
Yanny Bruere, a critic of London Mayor Sadiq Khan, has won approval to fly a giant balloon over London that depicts Khan dressed in a bikini to protest Khan’s decision to allow a balloon caricaturing President Donald Trump as an angry baby to float above the city while Trump visited England.
Alisa Haushalter of the health department in Shelby County, Tenn., said a decision to cancel classes at Kirby High School in Memphis to allow exterminators to deal with pests that include cockroaches, rodents and snakes is a first for the school as officials track down the source of the infestations.
Richard Hagerty, 35, a former police officer in Lee’s Summit, Mo., faces charges after being accused of robbing a bank of about $7,000 and leading police on a chase that ended with his capture in a neighboring city.
Sabrina Hancock, 24, arrested on a probation violation, is accused of stealing items from several vehicles as their owners attended a funeral in Canonsburg, Pa., and now faces multiple theft charges.
Michaela Pearson and Candice Little, arrested on charges of child abuse and contributing to the delinquency of minors, are accused of helping three young children featured in a social media video smoke what police in Winston-Salem, N.C., described as a drug-laced cigar.
Kevin Wallin, a Roman Catholic priest convicted of running a methamphetamine ring in Bridgeport, Conn., was sent back to prison for nine months after failing a drug test while on supervised release.
Kaitlin Bennett, who posted photos of herself walking around Kent State University in Ohio with an assault-style rifle on her shoulder, has been told to stop advertising an open-carry gun rally on campus because she doesn’t have permission to hold the event.
LaShonda Carter, 37, a Chicago high school teacher, assisted a former student who had given birth just three weeks earlier and needed help getting to a job fair, dropping the woman off at the event and baby-sitting the newborn, saying a teacher’s job sometimes “goes beyond the classroom.”