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Luke Gatti, 19, of Bayville, N.Y., is no longer enrolled at the University of Connecticut, a university spokesman said, after a video was posted on the Internet of him going on a drunken, obscenity-laced tirade against food service workers who refused to sell him jalapeno-bacon macaroni and cheese.
Danny Mitchell, 48, of Conyers, Ga., was charged with driving while intoxicated and public drunkenness after police said they found Mitchell backing into walls and driving over plants inside a supermarket while operating a motorized wheelchair.
James Hess, a taxidermist from Maquoketa, Iowa, was sentenced by a federal judge to 27 months in prison for illegally trafficking in a critically endangered species when he purchased and transported black rhinoceros horns from Oregon to Iowa.
Ed Paulk, Alabama’s fire marshal, shut down the “Maze of Terror,” operated by the Titus Volunteer Fire Department in Elmore County, calling the Halloween attraction “very dangerous” because of its multiple fire-code violations.
Gov. Jack Markell of Delaware plans to pardon posthumously Samuel Burris, a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad who, convicted after he was caught trying to help a slave escape to freedom in 1847, was sentenced to be sold into slavery but was bought by abolitionists instead.
Prince Abdullah Al Saud has been appointed by Saudi King Salman to replace Adel al-Jubeir as the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, his first senior government post, according to the Saudi Embassy in Washington.
Lauren Steenson, a petty officer in the U.S. Coast Guard, said a French sailor tucked his cat inside his clothing before he jumped from the rigging of his sailboat and landed safely beyond the rail of a waiting rescue ship in 20-foot swells south of Alaska.
Ron Reolfi, 52, of North Canton, Ohio, has been reunited with his 1968 Chevrolet Camaro, which was recovered by authorities in Delaware more than 30 years after it was stolen from outside the grocery store where Reolfi had worked as a 19-year-old.
Jamill Slaughter, 21, and Carla Martinez, 19, both of San Bernardino, Calif., were arrested by sheriff ’s deputies in a sting operation after they were accused of trying to sell a stolen English bulldog named Gunny back to the dog’s original owners for $2,500.