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Drew Principe, 17, of Westlake Village, Calif., who met Henry Oster, an 89- yearold Holocaust survivor, at a high school assembly, raised about $ 15,000 to send the man to Israel so he could meet his last living relative and celebrate his bar mitzvah.
Adam Pearl of Meridian, Idaho, said a hand- raised squirrel named Joe that gained fame for scaring off a teenage burglar, who was caught with scratches on his hands, hasn’t been seen since he returned to the wild by scampering up a backyard apple tree in early June.
Yaugeni Kralkin, 54, of New York City, who unbuckled the straps on a gurney in a moving ambulance and leaped out the back door, has sued the city, claiming emergency workers didn’t do enough to keep him from drunkenly jumping out as he was being taken to a hospital.
Alyssa King, a veterinarian and volunteer, said the Tennessee- based Horse Plus Humane Society is evaluating 35 horses to see whether they're adoptable after the animals were surrendered by their Colorado owners who were no longer able to care for them.
Ham McLain said a new gay pride intersection where the four pedestrian crossings are painted like rainbows makes him proud to be a new resident of the Montrose neighborhood of Houston.
Blake Williamson, 40, was arrested by Baton Rouge police on a video voyeurism charge after he was recorded using a camera attached to a briefcase to take video under a woman’s skirt several times over the past two months during church services, authorities said.
Brad Precosky, director of a weekend mountain footrace held near Anchorage, Alaska, where a 16- year- old racer was fatally mauled by a bear, said that while crowds typically make mountains safe places to be, runners recognize that such wilderness events remain inherently risky.
Hengky Widjaja, a spokesman for provincial police in Bali, Indonesia, said four foreigners — an Australian, a Bulgarian, an Indian and a Malaysian — dug a 50- foot tunnel under a wall and escaped from a prison located a few miles from many of the island’s famous beaches and resorts.
DeCarlos Johnson- Foston, 23, faces a felony animal cruelty charge after, sheriff’s deputies said, he stomped a kitten to death on a train station platform in Belleville, Ill., and walked away when a security guard told him he wasn’t allowed to take it with him on a light rail train.