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Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, said the two accountants responsible for the best-picture envelope flub at Sunday’s Academy Awards show will never work the event again, as the academy reviews its relationship with the accounting firm that has tallied the Oscar votes for years.
Teresa Drum, 38, told police in Frazer, Pa., that her husband committed suicide after they argued over a burned casserole and her drinking his last beer, but she was charged in the death after investigators said a gun found next to the body was not there in a photo she earlier had texted to a friend.
Doris Payne, 86, who has criminal convictions stretching over six decades, is too ill to stand trial in the 2015 theft of a pair of Christian Dior earrings from a Saks Fifth Avenue store in Fulton County, Ga., a judge ruled.
Manuela Carmena, mayor of Madrid, said police impounded a bus with anti-transgender messages painted on its sides that was being used by a group campaigning against teaching schoolchildren about sexual diversity.
Bobby Murphy of Charlotte, N.C., who won a $1 million lottery prize on a $10 scratch-off ticket, said he plans to buy a house with enough room for his fiancee’s son to play and space so his future spouse “can have her goats.”
Jim Angel, a climatologist at the University of Illinois, said that while January and February are usually Chicago’s snowiest months, the city has logged only trace amounts this year for the first time in 146 years.
Joseph Jones of Toledo, Ohio, faces menacing and sexual-imposition counts on accusations that he took off a woman’s shoe at a mall and sucked her toes without permission, and also is accused of massaging the feet of other women without their consent in a string of incidents since July.
Conrad Hafen, a Las Vegas judge, has been barred from the bench for life after a series of courtroom confrontations, including ordering bailiffs to handcuff a defense attorney when she wouldn’t stop arguing to keep a client out of jail.
Timothy Dougherty, mayor of Morristown, N.J., where about one-third of residents are Hispanic, said a photo on social media purporting to show Border Patrol agents making an arrest in front of a Hispanic business is a digitally altered fake intended to scare people.