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Mike Ritch, a professional chef who co-founded Smokin’ Angels BBQ Ministry, said a fundraiser the Adkins, Texas, group held selling $10 plates of barbecue to raise money for victims of the church shooting in nearby Sutherland Springs exceeded its goal of $50,000.
Spike Lee, the director who was presenting two of his documentaries at the Virginia Film Festival in Charlottesville, asked the audience to observe a moment of silence to remember the area woman killed by a car that plowed through a group of counterprotesters during a white nationalist rally in August.
Borut Pahor, Slovenia’s president, won a second term in office, becoming only the second Slovenian president to win a second term since the country gained independence from the former Yugoslavia in 1991.
Elizabeth Guerrero, 68, of Rio Grande Valley, Texas, faces charges in the death of her granddaughter’s former common-law husband, with authorities accusing her of running over 20-year-old Gilberto Gaytan with her SUV as part of a custody dispute between Gaytan and the granddaughter.
Warli, who uses one name and is marketing officer for a waxwork museum in Indonesia, said the De Mata Trick Eye Museum removed a statue of Adolf Hitler, with which visitors could take selfies in front of an image of the Auschwitz extermination camp, after Jewish and rights groups expressed anger.
Shawn Moore of Memphis faces homicide and other charges, police said, after he placed a 1-year-old girl in a bed with his gun and the infant’s 3-year-old sibling accidentally fatally shot her.
Lindsey Pelton, 36, and Doug Teixeira, 35, of Deltona, Fla., were charged with providing false information in what authorities said was a faked home invasion and shooting that the couple staged as part of a scheme to collect insurance money.
Emerson Isaac Hernandez-Turcios was pulled over in Mississippi transporting eight illegal aliens in a vehicle designed to carry five people, with three of them hiding under a cover in the cargo area, and was arrested on a DUI charge after the officer noticed a pipe and marijuana residue, authorities said.
Arongkron “Paul” Malasukum of New York City pleaded guilty to a federal wildlife trafficking count, admitting that he purchased parts from endangered African lions and tigers worth more than $150,000, with prosecutors saying he then sent them to Thailand for sale.