In the news
Terri Lynn Rote, 56, of Des Moines, Iowa, was sentenced to two years of probation and fined $750 after pleading guilty to felony election misconduct for trying to vote twice for Donald Trump, telling police at the time that she feared her first ballot would be changed to a vote for Hillary Clinton.
Malala Yousafzai, 20, the Afghan who won the Nobel Peace Prize after being shot by the Taliban for speaking out for girls’ rights to education, has been accepted to Oxford University in England, where she plans to major in philosophy, politics and economics.
Colleen Daley was harvesting carrots at the family farm near Armena, Alberta, when she pulled a carrot that had grown through a diamond engagement ring that her mother-in-law, Mary Grams, 84, lost 13 years ago while weeding the same plot.
Michael Dingman, 47, a Florida sheriff’s deputy, was arrested on a warrant after investigators say he used a cellphone to copy a videotape of the Jan. 6 shooting that killed five people at Fort Lauderdale’s airport, and illegally leaked it to the TMZ website.
Brendan Wiley, director of the Topeka Zoo in Kansas, said Tiffany, a 49-year-old lowland gorilla that had lost her appetite and was found to be constipated, is doing “really well” after surgery to clear a blocked colon.
Pauline Hanson, leader of the anti-Muslim One Nation party in Australia’s Parliament, angered lawmakers when she wore a black, head-to-ankle burqa to a legislative session as part of her campaign for a national ban on Islamic face coverings.
Adam Eidinger, arrested April 20 as he and others gave away marijuana in Washington, D.C., no longer faces possession charges after prosecutors determined that he had less than 2 ounces of pot, below the city’s legal limit.
John Louis said his brother, Robert, was trying to honor their father’s final wishes by spreading his ashes in Lake Superior near Au Train, Mich., when the kit boat he and six others were on made a sharp turn, spilling everyone into the water, and a boat prop hit Robert in the head, killing him.
David Bookstaver, 58, was fired from his $166,000-a-year job as spokesman for New York’s court system after he inadvertently dialed a reporter’s voice mail, which recorded him telling someone that he was slacking off at the office and “barely” went to work.