In the news
Gov. Jerry Brown of California reversed a parole board’s decision and denied the release of Bruce Davis, 71, a former Charles Manson follower who has served more than 43 years in prison for the 1969 slayings of musician Gary Hinman and stuntman Donald “Shorty” Shea.
Mehmet Baransu, a Turkish journalist who writes for the Taraf newspaper, was arrested in Istanbul and tweeted that he was beaten by police and believes he was detained as “revenge” for criticizing Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor Hadi Salihoglu.
Scott Rogers and other members of ghost-hunting group MGC Paranormal were spending a weekend investigating Beauvoir, the postwar home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Biloxi, Miss., after visitors to the estate sent the group photos with ghostly figures in the background.
Shelly Trentacosta of New Orleans said her son Trent, 7, was treated for what doctors said were shark bites after swimming in southeast Louisiana’s Lake Pontchartrain, a brackish body of water connected to the Gulf of Mexico.
Reginald Warren, 50, a former Fulton County, Ga., sheriff ’s deputy, was sentenced to a year and three months in prison for demanding bribe payments from workers in exchange for continuing to schedule them as public swimming pool security guards.
Travis Mills, a retired Army staff sergeant and paratrooper who lost his limbs in Afghanistan in 2012, made a parachute jump in Maine with first lady Ann LePage, who is afraid of heights, to raise money for a veterans center and museum.
Leanna Harris, whose husband, Justin Ross Harris, is charged with murder after their son, Cooper, was left in his father’s SUV for hours in Georgia and died, said her husband was a loving father and would never have intentionally harmed their son, according to a victim impact statement.
John Brasher, a property owner in Lafayette County, Miss., asked authorities for help deterring people who cross his property at all hours of the day and night because several GPS systems identify Brasher’s private road as a public street.
Todd Bontrager, 47, a habitual offender in Florida, went back to jail on trespassing and theft charges after telling Judge John “Jay” Hurley that he spent 13 years in prison so that he could study, because incarceration helped his concentration.