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Devin Soeseno , principal of Carencro Catholic School in Louisiana, came through on her promise once students earned 5,000 reward tickets for good behavior, playing Mrs. Claus and showering the basketball court with candy, toys, beads and reindeer headbands from a helicopter.

James Flurry , a City Council member in Shreveport, said a 6-1 vote will give workers $1,000 in coronavirus-pandemic hazard pay in time for Christmas, with part- timers getting $ 500, though the city can’t afford pay raises.

Chad Rosborough , 47, a former police major in McDonough, Ga., was arrested on three counts of theft and two counts of violating his oath after state investigators said they determined he stole $4,500 from the Henry County drug task force.

Darryl Brown , 21, of Donaldsonville, La., was charged with speeding, driving on the shoulder, fictitious license plate, littering and flight from an officer, but a state trooper is being investigated for reportedly approaching the suspect while firing his gun at the ground.

Mike Pence , the vice president, urged, “Keep pushing the vision and the mission of the United States Space Force,” as the newest branch of the military gave its members an official name after a yearlong selection process: Guardians.

Shoko Arai of Kusatsu, Japan, the only woman in the town’s 12-member assembly, says her ousting via referendum after she accused the mayor of sexual assault highlights the problems of the country’s male- dominated, smalltown politics in which women are often silenced.

Angela Stevens says she’s now lost both her mother and father after Roger Dale Stevens, 68, of Decatur, Ala., was sentenced to life for fatally shooting his former wife, Kay Letson Stevens, 64, at her bakery the day after their divorce became final.

Joe Foster , a retired paramedic in Columbia, Tenn., knew the good that organ donation can do, and when his 23-year-old son died of a brain aneurysm, he saw to it that four people’s lives were saved, including a 2-year-old who got a kidney and a veteran who got a new heart.

Laura Klink , spokeswoman for the Oregon Humane Society in Portland, said many adoptions are in the works after the agency took in 250 guinea pigs from an overwhelmed pet owner, and adopters will get “a lot of counseling on how quickly they can reproduce if you’ve got a male and a female together.”