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Joseph Duven, 22, of Manchester, N.H., was charged with criminal threatening, police say, after he knocked on the window of a car driven by a 17-yearold who was learning to parallel park and threatened to shoot the teen and instructor if they hit his car.
David Centanni, 38, a private investigator accused of illegally installing a GPS tracking device on a truck without the driver’s consent, was arrested in Gretna, La., after the driver called police, worried because Centanni seemed to be following him.
Johnny Max Mount, 45, of Biloxi, Miss., was charged with first-degree murder after, police say, he pulled out a handgun and killed a Waffle House restaurant employee because she told him to put out his cigarette.
David Charles, 21, who sold on eBay jars of human brain samples that had been stolen from the Indiana Medical History Museum in Indianapolis, where police had found a piece of paper with Charles’ bloody fingerprint on it, will serve at least a year in jail after pleading guilty to a burglary charge.
Rick Mendenhall, a fire captain in Jackson County, Ore., said a great horned owl was “stuck big time,” with a tangle of fishing line wrapped around its wing, until firefighters climbed high into a tree and rescued the bird, then took it to a wildlife rehabilitation center.
Sedrick Courtney, 43, was granted an $8 million settlement to be paid by the city of Tulsa in a wrongful-conviction lawsuit that he filed after DNA tests excluded him as a source of hairs found at the scene of a 1996 Tulsa robbery.
Rufus Graham, 25, of Burlington, N.J., whose leg was severed in a motorcycle accident four months ago, finally met Walter Rives, a former guard for NASA, who stopped at the accident scene and used his belt as a tourniquet, keeping Graham from bleeding to death.
David Kutchback, CEO of the regional MERS/ Goodwill, said thrift-store workers are trying to find the owner of $1,200 in cash that likely was accidentally included in items donated to a store in Festus, Mo.
Christine Miles, a school district spokesman, said administrators at a Portland, Ore., high school have canceled the winter dance because of safety concerns arising from suggestive gyrations that are “over the top, sexual in nature” and “way worse than dirty dancing.”