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Lucy Rogers, a Democrat running for the Vermont House who plays the cello, got together with her Republican opponent, Zac Mayo, a guitarist, at the end of a debate held at a library in Jeffersonville to play a duet of the Eddie Vedder song “Society,” calling it “a nice way to end on a positive note.”
Xavier Martin, 19, of West Palm Beach, Fla., accused of threatening high school football players with a gun when they gathered in a prayer circle and partially blocked a driveway, was arrested on counts of aggravated assault and possessing a weapon on school property, police said.
Dustin Merriman, manager of a building renovation project in Valdosta, Ga., said that a work crew disposed of about 1,000 teeth they found stashed inside a wall of a second-floor area that housed several dentist offices in the early 1900s.
Anthony Torres, a police officer in North Brunswick, N.J., and two bystanders went to the aid of two women trapped in a burning SUV by bending a door frame enough so they could pull the driver out and allow a passenger to escape the vehicle that was wedged against a tree.
Enrique Lara, 36, of Chicago and Jasmine Morales, 21, of McAllen, Texas, face drug-trafficking charges after being found with 1,262 pounds of liquid methamphetamine hidden in the fuel tank of a tractor-trailer in Norman, Okla., federal prosecutors said.
Peter Treglia of Stack’s Bowers auction house called a rare $1,000 bill nicknamed “the grand watermelon” for its ornate green zeros “the one key item that every collector dreams of owning” after the bill sold for $2.04 million to an anonymous bidder at an auction in Baltimore.
Gary Jones, mayor of Grovetown, Ga., said the town is trying to make sure that children out trick-ortreating remain safe by requiring the 25 to 30 registered sex offenders in the town to stay at City Hall from 6-9 p.m. on Halloween.
Jay Senger, 51, a jailer at the Taney County, Mo., jail, said that a female inmate had been “tempting” and “teasing” him after he was arrested on accusations that he had sex with her in the doorway of her cell after lockdown, detectives said.
Alain Robert, 56, the urban climber known as the “French Spiderman,” has been banned from climbing any building in Britain after he scaled one of London’s tallest skyscrapers — the 662-foot Heron Tower — without ropes or permission.