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T.J. Smith, a Baltimore police spokesman, said investigators can’t retrieve footage from the body camera worn by officer Phillip Lippe, who was wounded during a fatal shootout with a suspect, because the camera was struck by a bullet and was severely damaged.
Kiah Morris of Bennington, Vt., the only black woman serving in the state’s House of Representatives, has resigned effective immediately, saying the racial harassment from elements in the community and vandalism to her home combined with online threats had become too much for her to finish her second term.
Ryan Repp, a spokesman for Brownells Inc., an Iowa-based firearms company, said the company decided to help police in Bismarck, N.D., by donating nine AR-15 rifles, custom parts and other equipment for the department’s school resource officers.
Jared Hensley, a high school athletic director and assistant principal in Soddy-Daisy, Tenn., was placed on administrative leave as school officials investigate a video Hensley posted to explain his ban on athletic shorts in which he said: “Blame the girls, because they pretty much ruin everything.”
Christopher Vanbibber and Lena Peterson, both of Caseyville, Ill., pleaded guilty to using counterfeit $20 bills to buy Girl Scout Cookies, with Vanbibber admitting that he also passed fake money at a church concession stand, federal prosecutors said.
Brandon Nelson, 33, faces burglary charges after being accused of stealing 150 pounds of waffle mix from a former employer’s storage facility in Peachtree City, Ga., and then covertly selling it to several people who contacted him about the stolen batter mix.
David Sproling, 51, of St. Louis faces involuntary manslaughter and other charges after, police said, he confronted at gunpoint an unarmed man he suspected of stealing his tools and shot the man as he tried to flee before police arrived.
Nicolas Pifer, 46, a Virginia construction worker, faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty in federal court to aiming a laser at two commercial jets as they were landing at Dulles International Airport, injuring one pilot’s eyes.
Mark Denney, the police chief in Colerain, Ohio, said a figure wrapped in a garbage bag that was spotted by county workers on a wooded hillside near a city park turned out to be a discarded life-size female sex doll.