In the news
Kimberly Bandoh,a former magistrate judge in Clayton County, Ga., was arrested after police said she left her 2-year-old and 3-year-old boys inside a locked car at the Riverdale Municipal Court parking lot for about 30 minutes while she was inside handling a court case.
Bar Refaeli, an Israeli model, received permission from Israel’s Civil Aviation Authority to shut down the airspace above her coming star-studded wedding, sparking the nation’s Transportation Minister Israel Katz to say “the skies belong to the entire public” and that he would remove the authority’s director if the director doesn’t reconsider.
Brian Duke, sheriff of Henderson County, Tenn., rejected a request that he remove the phrase “In God We Trust” from patrol cars, saying the U.S. Supreme Court has held that the use of the phrase on government vehicles is legal.
Linda Black, a Republican state lawmaker from Bonne Terre, Mo., helped rescue an adult male bald eagle that she spotted injured near a field while checking on her cattle.
Juliana White Bull-Taken Alive, president of the McLaughlin (S.D.) School District board on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, said the district will stop using the “Midgets” as its nickname and mascot because it is offensive to little people.
Michelle Carter, 18, of Plainville, Mass., will face an involuntary-manslaughter charge after authorities said she sent her boyfriend dozens of text messages encouraging him to take his own life, a juvenile court judge ruled.
Alex Hribal of Murrysville, Pa., will be moved upon his 18th birthday from a juvenile detention center to a county jail where he will await a decision on whether he’ll be tried in adult or juvenile court in the stabbings of 20 students and a security guard at his high school.
John David Harvey, 34, and Adrianna Nordin, 19, both of Torrington, Conn., were arrested after police said they were seen letting two 10-year-olds and an 8-year-old ride in the trunk of their car because five passengers had taken up all of the seat room.
Emily Morgan, 28, a Utah woman who, months before her due date, gave birth to a 1½-pound boy while on a seven-day cruise in the middle of the Caribbean, credited the ship’s crew in helping keep her baby alive as the ship sped toward Puerto Rico and said her baby is now receiving care at a neonatal intensive care unit in Miami.