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Cressida Dick, 56, a former assistant commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police, has been named the agency’s new commissioner, making her the first woman to lead Scotland Yard in its 188-year history.

Tony Moreno, 23, of Middletown, Conn., who told jurors that his 7-monthold son slipped from his arms, faces up to 70 years in prison after being convicted of murder for throwing the baby off a 90-foot-high bridge.

Jennifer Clason, 45, mayor of Henryetta, Okla., wore a pink T-shirt bearing the words “Keep calm because dancing is not a crime” to a City Council meeting where a never-enforced, 1970s-era ordinance prohibiting dancing in the town within 500 feet of a church or school was repealed.

Gudni Th. Johannesson, the president of Iceland, reassured residents that he doesn’t have the power to ban pizza toppings after the media reported that he had told some high school students he’d ban pineapple on pizza if he could, generating a storm of protests.

Brittany Fultz, 26, of Marblehead, Ohio, pleaded innocent to a sex-related charge after prosecutors said she was filmed performing a sexually suggestive dance for a 100-yearold man at an assisted-living center where she once worked, which her attorney described as a prank intended to make the man feel good.

Jerry Willis, a National Park Service spokesman, said investigators are trying to figure out who hung a 20-foot banner on the Statue of Liberty on Tuesday that proclaimed “Refugees Welcome” and flew for about an hour before it was taken down.

James Otis, pleaded no contest to vandalism and was sentenced to three years’ probation, ordered to perform 20 days of community service and pay $4,400 for the damage done when he used a sledgehammer and pickax to deface President Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles.

Johnny Burkdoll, 56, a supervisor at the Ozark Correctional Center in Fordland, Mo., was charged with false imprisonment and assault, accused of forcing a female employee into a cell and closing the door on her.

Shane Treadaway of New Albany, Miss., was carrying a cable and searching for his dog when he climbed a tree, then fell through the branches, which ripped at his clothes and left him hanging upside-down nearly naked for four hours until firefighters freed him, authorities said.