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Stephen Glover, 41, better known as the Jackass star Steve-O, was sentenced to 30 days in the Los Angeles County jail and ordered to stay away from the Hollywood entertainment district after he performed an anti-SeaWorld stunt in which he climbed atop a crane and shot off fireworks.

Chelsea Manning, the transgender former Army intelligence analyst who released classified documents to WikiLeaks, is renewing her demand in federal court that she be allowed to grow her hair longer than 2 inches as she undergoes hormone therapy at a military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

Matthew Tollis, 22, of Wethersfield, Conn., will serve a year and a day in prison for making bogus 911 calls, known as “swatting,” in hopes of getting police SWAT teams to go to the homes of fellow online gamers in four states to distract them.

Stephen Vouch, 29, of Boise, Idaho, traveled by raft and small plane over three days to get medical care after a young black bear bit his head as he slept while on a bighorn-sheep hunting trip in a remote area.

Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., and his wife, Landra, are suing the manufacturer of the exercise band that he said he was using when it slipped or snapped during his workout and injured his right eye, face and ribs.

Donavin Jennings, 23, of Wylie, Texas, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for sexual abuse and indecency with a child after he was caught posing as a 16-year-old high school student and dating a 12-yearold girl.

Tory Schwarze, an emergency medical technician with the Newburg Fire Company in Logan Township, Pa., said he thinks the volunteer fire department’s purple firetruck is the only one of that color used to raise awareness about domestic violence.

Joe Clifford of Middle Township, N.J., said a dilapidated Jersey Shore house that he and neighbors had complained about for five years was swept off its pilings during a rainstorm, hit people’s nearby decks and capsized Clifford’s 18-foot boat as the structure floated into a bay.

Marlene Pinnock, who received a $1.5 million settlement after she was punched by a patrol officer as he arrested her for walking along Interstate 10 in Los Angeles, has been rearrested and will undergo a mental exam after she was spotted again walking along the shoulder of the same stretch of freeway.