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Mylee Murphy, 9, of Manchester, Ky., was hurt but managed to swim to safety and then go look for help after her mother, Chasity Murphy, 34, died after losing control of her car, which went down an embankment and overturned in a creek.
Kellyanne Conway, President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign manager and now a senior adviser, is returning to her New Jersey roots to serve as grand marshal of Saturday’s Christmas parade in Hammonton, where she graduated from high school in 1985.
Mike Peyton of Powell, Wyo., who said he took his high school ring from his girlfriend as they broke up in the early 1970s and flung it away, was reunited with it 45 years later after a man using a metal detector found the ring inscribed with Peyton’s initials and returned it.
Arthur Grabowski, 67, a school committee member in Saugus, Mass., avoided trial on assault and other charges by agreeing to attend anger-management classes for hitting a 73-yearold man with a bag of frozen fish patties while arguing at a veterans’ food drive.
Joann Curley, 53, who pleaded guilty to killing her husband in 1991 by slipping rat poison into his food and drinks at their home in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., will be freed next week after serving nearly 20 years in prison, authorities said.
Melissa Kitcher of North Port, Fla., took a wrong turn about 3 miles into a half-marathon trail run in a 25,000-acre park southeast of Sarasota and wandered lost for nearly 12 hours until she was found by sheriff’s deputies after her husband reported her missing.
Wanda Larson, a former social worker in Union County, N.C., and other social services officials are defendants in a lawsuit filed on behalf of a foster child found in 2013 chained to a house porch with a dead chicken around his neck, with the suit claiming she used “connections” to manipulate his custody.
Arizona Sallee, 21, of Rogersville, Mo., was arrested on an involuntary-manslaughter charge after prosecutors said she rolled on top of her 3-month-old son and suffocated him while sleeping and under the influence of methamphetamine, marijuana and an anti-anxiety drug.
Frank Boucher, owner of Gile’s Family Farm in Alfred, Maine, said that someone stole a trailer containing more than 200 Christmas wreaths worth about $5,000, a theft discovered when his workers went to unload them but couldn’t find the trailer.