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Franki Burns, 8, found a wallet containing $ 1,700 as he got ready for a Gaelic football game in the Bronx, N. Y., and after taking it to his father, they were able to find the owner, a mugging victim who had dropped it after being treated at a hospital.
Jessica Cross, 27, of Springdale, Md., surrendered to face burglary and theft charges after police distributed video of a woman worming in through an unlocked drive- thru window at a McDonald’s, helping herself to a soft drink and making off with a box containing cash, food and Happy Meal toys.
Trina Hepker, a specialeducation teacher in Muscatine, Iowa, said that since students who become upset don’t always tell her everything, she has them read to a therapy pig named Frankie to calm them and focus on learning.
Karen Fonseca, 46, who has on her pickup a rear- window decal with a profane message to President Donald Trump and his supporters, said she has been repeatedly pulled over by Houston area law officers, and although she hasn’t been ticketed, a county sheriff has warned that the decal puts her at risk of a disorderly- conduct charge.
Jason Englen, 34, of Chelsea, Mass., dubbed the “spelling bee bandit” because the notes he passed to tellers during robberies at Boston area banks spelled “robbery” with one “b,” pleaded guilty to four bank robberies.
Yutaka Yanagisawa, whose Tokyo restaurant made the Angus beef cheeseburger that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe served President Donald Trump during his visit, said the $ 12 burger served with coleslaw and fries is still drawing large crowds.
Eric Preissman, a California Highway Patrol officer, said a 54- year- old woman who led officers on vehicle chases on freeways and streets in and around Los Angeles on back- toback days was caught when she became stuck in traffic during the second pursuit.
Travis Green, 29, of Cheektowaga, N. Y., became angry after requesting a job application and left a Dollar General Store, then returned with a pump- action, AR- 15- style rifle and fired more than 20 rounds into the building, wounding one man, police said.
Simon Richards, chief executive of a British libertarian group, called it “sick” and “anti- Christian” after a bakery chain apologized for creating a Nativity scene in which baby Jesus was replaced with a sausage roll to promote its $ 32 Advent calendar.