In the news
Christopher Reed, 28, an armed civilian who police say accidentally fired a shot from an AR- 15 rifle into the pavement but didn’t hurt anyone while standing guard outside a military recruiting center in Lancaster, Ohio, was given a summons to appear in court on a misdemeanor charge of discharging a firearm within the city limits.
Jeh Johnson, the homeland security secretary, said at a conference in Aspen, Colo., that it “doesn’t make any fiscal sense” to pay nearly $ 900,000 per year to house each of the 116 terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, while it costs the government about $ 80,000 a year to incarcerate an inmate in a high- security federal prison.
Anthony Weiner, the former Democratic congressman who resigned over sexually explicit texts and social media posts in 2011 and later lost a bid to be New York City mayor, has a new job as a part- time public- relations consultant with the firm MWW.
Pete Kassetas, the New Mexico State Police chief, said he would pay for a return ticket for Charlie Hill, a fugitive living in Cuba who is wanted in the 1971 killing of a state police officer and who fled during a plane hijacking.
Bill Coppersmith, a Maine lobsterman, told the Portland Press Herald that he caught a rare, bright- orange lobster, the odds of which are pegged at one in several million, with his latest find coming 18 years after he caught a white lobster, which is thought to be a 1- in100 million catch.
Randolph Bruce Adair, 70, a retired Los Angeles police detective who authorities say is the so- called Snowbird Bandit responsible for a string of Orange County bank robberies this year, was arrested in Rancho Santa Margarita.
Kevin Coffey, 49, the police chief for Maypearl, Texas, surrendered and has been charged with sexual assault of a child, indecency with a child by exposure, indecency with a child by contact and sexual performance by a child.
Mary O’Callaghan, 50, an 18- year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department who was found guilty of assault under color of authority, was sentenced to 16 months in jail after authorities said she kicked and struck a handcuffed woman who later died in 2012.
David Lee Mangum, 39, of Dexter, Mo., was sentenced to 30 years in prison for knowingly exposing a sexual partner to the virus that causes AIDS.