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John Pallone, school superintendent in New Kensington, Pa., signed a settlement that calls for the removal of a 6- foot- tall Ten Commandments monument outside a high school and payment of $ 164,000 in legal fees to settle a 2012 federal lawsuit filed by a student and her atheist mother.
Shawn McGuire, a police sergeant in St. Louis County, Mo., said a 14- yearold boy is recovering from non- life- threatening injuries after being hit by a freight train Sunday in suburban St. Louis as he walked along the tracks while wearing headphones.
Marine Le Pen, France’s far- right presidential candidate, refused to wear a headscarf for a meeting with Lebanon’s top Sunni Muslim cleric, walking away after a brief squabble and later calling the scarf “a symbol of a woman’s submission.”
Lawrence Cannon, 42, faces a first- degree murder charge on accusations by police in Clearwater, Fla., that he and Jennifer Elam, 44, charged as an accessory, killed their landlord and then lived in the landlord’s home for two weeks while trying to decide how to dispose of the body.
Heather Lindsay and Lexene Charles, an interracial couple in Stamford, Conn., who have refused to remove a racial slur painted on their garage door because they say police haven’t properly investigated the case, received a city blight citation for not covering up the slur.
Kyle Poore, 29, of Lyons Falls, N. Y., was charged with assault after, prosecutors said, he used a chain saw to cut through a door at his boss’s home, severely injuring his employer’s hand, before fleeing into some woods where he was caught.
President Robert Mugabe, ruler of Zimbabwe since 1980, said on his 93rd birthday that he would run for re- election in 2018, and he praised U. S. President Donald Trump’s “America First” policy, saying it matches his own thinking toward nationalism.
Dale Fair and Robert Thorpe, two jail deputies in Monroe County, N. Y., are recovering after a gun they were cleaning accidentally discharged, and a bullet struck Fair’s hand and leg, and a bullet fragment hit Thorpe in the leg.
Connor Cox, 18, a college student in New Wilmington, Pa., posted on social media that his mother, Connie, sent him two care packages, one filled with goodies and the other filled with trash that he was supposed to have taken out on a recent visit home.