In the news
Carlos Lopez Cantera, Florida’s lieutenant governor, went hunting Monday night with Tom Rahill, one of 25 hunters paid by the state to kill pythons, and snagged a 15-foot python along a canal in western Miami-Dade County.
Robin Bell, a Washington, D.C.-based artist and filmmaker, projected the words “pay Trump bribes here” and “emoluments welcome” across the Washington hotel owned by President Donald Trump until a security guard asked him to stop after about 10 minutes.
George H.W. Bush, 92, and his wife, Barbara, are back at their summer home on Walker’s Point in Kennebunkport, Maine, less than a month after the former president was treated at a Texas hospital for pneumonia and chronic bronchitis.
David Webb wept and said he “never foresaw a problem” after his son, Joshua, 36, was arrested, accused of decapitating his mother on Mother’s Day and then showing up at a grocery store in Estacada, Ore., with her head and stabbing a clerk there until he was overpowered by workers.
Bernardo Calana, 53, of Haverhill, Mass., donned an orange Home Depot apron and posed as an employee to steal two air conditioners at a New Hampshire store but was arrested when the manager noticed that the name on the apron didn’t match that of any of his workers, police said.
Bradley Bastow, a Michigan osteopathic doctor, had his license suspended after state regulators said he performed unsanitary liposuctions in a pole barn storage building, improperly disposed of medical waste and committed other offenses.
Asafak Bhura, 50, owner of a convenience store in Middletown, Conn., pleaded guilty to illegally cashing 126 false federal income-tax refund checks totaling more than $787,000 and will pay $39,000 in restitution for the commissions he got for cashing the checks.
Charles Melton, director of the Maine Coast Marathon in Biddeford, Maine, said runners mistakenly directed down a dead-end road that added nearly a half-mile to the normal 26.2-mile run are being offered refunds if they missed qualifying for the Boston Marathon because of it.
Glenn Simpson, manager of Dry Tortuga National Park in Florida, said Cleatus, a crocodile that mysteriously appeared in the remote island park 14 years ago, was relocated to the Everglades after he got too friendly with food-bearing visitors.