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Linwood “Woody” Kaine, 25, of Minneapolis, the son of U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., was placed on probation for a year and ordered to pay $236 in fines and fees in connection with his arrest after a protest outside a March 4 rally for President Donald Trump in St. Paul.
Rebecca Johnson, widow of Dan Johnson, a Kentucky lawmaker who killed himself after a sexual-assault allegation, has been nominated by Bullitt County Republicans to run for her former husband’s seat representing a district south of Louisville.
Carlos Alves, 59, of Exeter, R.I., was charged with animal cruelty and mistreatment after officials seized 14 beagles, six Brittany spaniels and four Chihuahuas that were being kept outside without adequate shelter in subfreezing temperatures.
Michael Wilson, 32, of Palm Coast, Fla., was arrested in Knoxville, Tenn., on aggravated-assault and other counts after Flagler County, Fla., sheriff’s deputies said he rigged his home’s front doorknob and lock in an attempt to electrocute his estranged pregnant wife.
Nicole Hunter of Ledyard, Conn., was at the police station waiting to be booked on an unrelated charge when she pulled cocaine wrapped in paper from inside her clothing and tried to snort it, prompting an additional drug possession count, investigators said.
Nicholas Schlei and Nicholas Reid, both 23 and Milwaukee police officers, were on patrol when they saved two unconscious 16-year-olds by quickly pulling them out of a car that had caught fire after it crashed into a utility pole and overturned.
Dixan Diaz and Jamie Perrea, stranded in the Atlantic Ocean for about 40 hours in their disabled 21-foot boat, were rescued about 16 miles east of Jacksonville, Fla., by the U.S. Coast Guard after their families reported that they were overdue from a fishing trip.
Alberto Casias, a grocery store butcher in Fresno, Calif., took off his apron and stepped around his meat counter to help other store workers deliver a healthy baby boy when the child’s mother, a regular customer, unexpectedly went into labor.
Mateo Rueda, an elementary school art teacher in Hyrum, Utah, was fired after parents complained that he had showed sixthgrade students pornography when he handed out postcards from the school library that showed images of classical paintings that included two partial nudes.