In the news
Derrick Fulton of Grovetown, Ga., not knowing that his 14- year- old daughter had let a teenager into their home, thought he was confronting a burglar when he fatally shot the 17- year- old who ran out of a closet around 3 a. m. Saturday, sheriff’s deputies reported.
Glen Harris of Hartford, Conn., and his family will get $ 885,000 from the city to settle a federal lawsuit filed after two police officers entered a fenced yard without a warrant in 2006 and shot and killed the family’s Saint Bernard dog in front of Harris’ daughter.
Victor Murdock of the American Legion Riders Post 179 out of Grandville, Mich., said he was barred from wearing his legion vest, with patches such as an American flag and a bald eagle, at a Dave & Buster’s because the manager invoked the restaurant’s dress code, which prohibits evidence of gang affiliation.
Thomas Lopez, owner of the El Tajin taco truck, said he and his employees “are ready to serve food, everywhere,” after going to the rescue of drivers stranded in an eight- hour Seattle traffic jam by opening up and serving lunch on Interstate 5.
James Close, 45, of Abington, Pa., a dermatology clinic nurse, was arrested, accused of recording videos of naked female patients after one 17- year- old patient noticed a phone on the ground that had been recording her while she was undressed, investigators said.
Kenneth Rossi, 54, of Jeannette, Pa., was arrested, police said, after he was found possessing stolen jewelry worth $ 30,000 that he was trying to put into a safe- deposit box when he collapsed from an apparent drug overdose at a bank branch.
Adam James, chief of the Onancock, Va., Volunteer Fire Department, said rescue workers freed a man who got his leg caught in a bear trap after jumping into a ditch to avoid traffic while walking along a road.
David Kennedy, 18, and his 16- year- old brother were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and battery after they got into an argument with a teen who owed them $ 20 and knocked over a table at a Girl Scout Cookie stand, scattering boxes after demanding they be paid in cookies, police in Palm Coast, Fla., said.
Jonathan Hall, an off- duty police sergeant in Leland, N. C., saved a dog named Kia when he kicked in the door of a neighbor’s burning home to search for the pet, enabling the dog to escape.