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Robert Currier, a Vermont wildlife officer, said a moose that swam across Lake Champlain from New York to South Hero, Vt., drowned when it became frightened and went back into the water when a crowd of people gathered on the shore to take pictures of the exhausted animal.
Dylan Ellis, a jail deputy in Spartanburg, S.C., was pulled off his shift and arrested on four counts of attempted murder and arson after he was accused of burning down the home of his ex-girlfriend’s family with four people inside, investigators said.
William Rodriguez, 47, of Lawrence, Mass., pleaded innocent to 60 charges accusing him of running a four-state ATM, burglary and vehicle theft ring involving four other co-conspirators that netted more than $300,000 in property and currency, prosecutors said.
Lai Rong, a kindergarten principal in Shenzhen, China, said the goal was to have children “learn more about one variety of dance” after parents complained that a shimmying pole dancer was among the performers who greeted students as they arrived for a new semester.
Sadie Albers, a police spokesman in San Bernardino, Calif., said investigators are dealing with uncooperative witnesses as they sort out what led to a shooting during a dice game at an apartment complex where eight people were wounded.
Carla Maloney apologized and resigned as secretary of the Beaver County, Pa., Republican Committee after referring on social media to black NFL players who kneel during the national anthem to protest social injustice as “baboons,” and stating that “overpaid ignorant blacks” should “go to Africa.”
Gadi Eisenkot, chief of staff for Israel’s military, is inadvertently causing headaches for a businessman identified only as Yossi who was assigned Eisenkot’s former cellphone number and is now getting calls and messages from senior Israeli and foreign military officials.
Jerome Gray, spokesman for Houston’s transit authority, said the agency pulled a television commercial praising its response to Hurricane Harvey flooding in 2017 because the spot showed stock video from 2005’s Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.