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Glenford Turner, a U.S. Army veteran from Bridgeport, Conn., filed a lawsuit against a Veterans Affairs hospital claiming that a scalpel was left inside him after surgery in 2013 and was only discovered in 2017 when he sought treatment for abdominal pain.

Ben Davis, a diamond industry analyst, said a 910-carat diamond, about the size of two golf balls and the fifth-largest ever found, discovered at the Letseng mine in Lesotho in southern Africa could be worth as much as $40 million.

Henry Roque, who didn’t immediately take his 6-year-old son Ryker to a doctor after he was scratched by a sick bat because the boy cried when told he would have to get shots, said his son died at a hospital in Orlando, Fla., from rabies.

Mark Pugash, a spokesman for Toronto police, said no evidence has been found to support a claim that drew international attention made by an 11-year-old Muslim girl who said that a scissors-wielding man tried to cut off her hijab as she walked to school.

Ronald Traas, 63, was sentenced to 120 days in a shock-incarceration program and five years’ probation for breaking into the apartment of a woman in St. Joseph, Mo., while she was showering and stealing her underwear in what he later described as a “panty raid,” prosecutors said.

Robert Krebs, 80, was charged with two armed robbery counts after investigators circulated security photos of an elderly man brandishing a handgun inside a bank in Tucson, Ariz.

Tamela Skaggs, a police spokesman in Buckeye, Ariz., said investigators haven’t identified the shooter whose stray bullet fatally struck a 24-year-old woman in the chest at a desert area west of Phoenix popular for target shooting.

Lincoln Hough , a Greene County, Mo., commissioner, said the county will pay a private firm $1,500 per autopsy to ensure there isn’t a lapse in service while it searches for a full-time medical examiner.