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Matt Rush and Alan Worthy, police officers in Cocoa, Fla., searched for nearly an hour until they found and rescued a 23-month-old girl wearing a life jacket who had stayed afloat in an air pocket underneath a boat that had capsized on the Indian River in central Florida.
Vince Finaldi, an attorney for a former high school student who fathered a child with a teacher in Redlands, Calif., said the student got a $6 million settlement in a lawsuit saying the school district knew of his relationship with Laura Whitehurst but failed to warn his family.
Chuck Craft, who with his wife, Karen, lives outside Walker, La., a small town near Baton Rouge, found some humor in the floods that forced the Crafts and their neighbors to salvage what they can, saying: “I guess God wanted me to de-clutter. I was too pigheaded to do it.”
Vanessa Young of Quincy, Mass., was arrested on charges including assault with a dangerous weapon after, police said, she took a nun’s rosary beads at knife point after the sister opened a small satchel to prove she didn’t have any money.
Cassandra Phillips, 32, of Burlington, Kan., got caught in a flash flood that swamped her minivan and spent more than an hour clinging to a tree limb with her toddler, Ethan, talking to emergency dispatchers on her phone until help arrived.
Brandon Warner married Breane Proctor at a church as tornado sirens blared across Grand Rapids, Mich., with Proctor saying after the storm system had safely passed, “I figured if we were going to get hit, maybe it was meant to be.”
Roy Cockrum of Knoxville, Tenn., who took a $154 million lump-sum Powerball payment in 2014, has since donated $300,000 of his winnings to Democratic causes in Tennessee.
Jatinder Malholtra, the chief surgeon at India’s Amritsar Corporate Hospital, said a team of five surgeons removed 50 knives from the stomach of a 42-year-old man who had impulsively swallowed them.
Scott Clarke, a police sergeant in Sarnia, Ontario, said it took hours to bus about 1,500 U.S. citizens back to the U.S. after high winds pushed their inflatable rafts and boats into Canada during the 7.5 mile Port Huron Float Down on the river that separates Michigan from Ontario.