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Sherell Bates, 34 weeks pregnant with twins, said “no mom should have to go through that” after she had to lift her shirt to expose her belly because a suspicious police officer had her step away from a store check-out line in Pineville, N.C., to find out what was under her shirt.
Scott Parkin, a fire captain in Paterson, N.J., rappelled from a bridge to rescue a young pit bull terrier stranded at the base of a waterfall, luring it close with food and then netting it so it could be lifted to safety, saying that his father rescued a dog from the same spot in 1975.
Ethan Sonneborn, 14, of Bristol, Vt., one of four people seeking the Democratic nomination for governor in the state, says he “wants voters to take me seriously because I have practical progressive ideas, and I happen to be 14, not the other way around.”
Roy Reynolds, 69, a doctor in Franklin, Ky., convicted of illegally prescribing opioids to patients who died of overdoses and described by federal prosecutors as “a drug dealer with a medical license,” was sentenced to 50 months in prison.
Carson Wright, manager of a bungee ride attraction in Branson, said two passengers were rescued after becoming stuck 100 feet in the air when a cable on the “Ejection Seat” ride got hung up, requiring a crane and about two hours to bring them safely down.
Junya Hida, a Japanese man detained by Osaka police on robbery and rape counts, stole an officer’s sneakers and then forced open a panel separating detainees from a visitor area to escape from the police station where he had been held for two months.
Tom Pour, fire chief of Belleville, Ill., said firefighters extended ladders across the muddy bottom of a partially drained lake to rescue a man who became stuck while trying to reach his pet parrot, which remained perched on the man’s shoulders as he was being pulled to safety.
Marie Wilson, 67, of Wilton, Conn., and 61-yearold Joanne Pascarelli of Stratford, two sisters who are former cafeteria workers, were arrested on charges they stole nearly a half-million dollars from two schools from 2012 to 2017, police said.
Ricky Adams, an Argo, Ala., church pastor, said “The Lord had his hand on me” after he escaped serious injury when a lightning bolt struck close by as he locked his church, shocking him but leaving him alert and talking by the time firefighters arrived.