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Anthony Golding,a principal at a northern Mississippi school, said students in seventh-through-12th grade who participate in extracurricular activities or drive on campus must agree to random drug testing, and they can’t participate in the activities if a guardian chooses not to sign a form consenting to the testing.
Stephen Zabrauskas found a 1995 Florida State University ring with a name engraved on it while on a recent snorkeling trip near Hutchinson Island, Fla., and returned it to its owner, Elizabeth Engel-Petric, more than two decades after she lost it.
Guyton Budden, an alderman in Palmetto, La., said no one is interested in becoming the small town’s police chief after the current chief, David Krull, who is also the village’s only police officer, moved out of town and now can’t run for re-election in January.
Harry Thomas, 75, a former New Jersey pastor who co-founded a Christian music festival, was sentenced to 18 years in prison after acknowledging sexually assaulting a 9-year-old, having sexual contact with three girls ages 7-9 and exposing himself to a girl.
Spencer Sutton, 24, and John Galman, 26, two white New Orleans police officers, were fired and charged with battery after Jorge Gomez, who was born in the U.S. and grew up in Honduras, accused them of beating him and calling him a “fake American” when he told them he’d served in the U.S. military.
Koa Smith, 23, a surfer from Hawaii, rode a wave off the coast of Namibia for 2 minutes, staying upright through eight barrels, referring to inside the wave’s curve, as the wave traveled for nearly a mile, with two cameras capturing the whole ride.
Angus King and Susan Collins, Maine’s U.S. senators, introduced a resolution to again designate Sept. 25 as National Lobster Day to honor the economic, historic, cultural and culinary contributions of lobsters in New England.
Yenier Conde, 32, of Lansing, Mich., was arrested on child abuse, unlawful imprisonment and gun charges after he and his wife were accused of whipping their five children and locking them in a dark bedroom with no food or water.
Robert McDonald, 49, of Coushatta, La., was sentenced to 260 years in prison for repeatedly raping and sexually abusing a girl when she was between the ages of 5 and 7.