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Cody Bourgeois and Monique Bourgeois were arrested on counts of child desertion and obscenity after authorities in Cameron Parish, La., accused the two of leaving their 20-monthold daughter alone on a beach while they went on a two-hour naked jog.
Mike Sennello, superintendent at Center Cemetery in New Milford, Conn., said the cemetery will be closed for three days to allow bow hunters to cull earth-digging woodchucks that have been toppling headstones.
Gregory Matthews, 47, of Plano, Texas, suffered serious but not life-threatening injuries when mauled by a brown bear with cubs while he was moose hunting near Doroshin Bay on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, Alaska state troopers said.
Will Rogers, mayor of Hawkins, Texas, said the town, about 95 miles southeast of Dallas, will take down a 4-year-old sign that says “Jesus Welcomes You To Hawkins,” to avoid lawsuits over whether the sign violates laws dealing with the separation of church and state.
Matthew Johnson, 29, held on drug charges in Louisville, Ky., escaped from the minimum-security jail but was later found slightly injured after his knotted-bedsheet rope unraveled and dropped him 20 feet while he was climbing down from the roof.
Julie Hayes, 49, an assistant district attorney in Washington County, Tenn., was found alive but with a separated shoulder and an injured foot after she disappeared while on a hike in rugged mountain terrain in western North Carolina and spent two days in the woods before rescuers located her.
John Wangsness, a Minnesota dog owner, privately settled his lawsuit against a breeder he accused of vengefully neutering his champion bichon frise, Beau Lemon, without permission after another breeder asked to have the dog sire puppies.
Steven Dinkle, 30, a former Ku Klux Klan leader on probation after pleading guilty to burning a cross in a black neighborhood in Ozark, Ala., will return to prison for 10 months for violating the terms of his release by leaving town and not telling authorities.
Beth Chapman, wife of reality TV star bounty hunter Duane “Dog” Chapman, is suing former Fort Gibson, Okla., bondsman Lionel Biggers for libel, claiming Biggers coordinated a “rampage of character attacks” against her on social media by accusing the couple of breaking the law.