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Linnard Crouch, a former Texas City, Texas, police officer, was sentenced to 10 years of probation after pleading guilty to stealing more than $2,000 from a driver who suffered a fatal heart attack along a road while on his way to buy Christmas presents in December 2016.
Kristina Gibson faces public intoxication and other charges after she was accused of filling her son’s sippy-cup with an alcoholic beverage, sneaking it into a movie theater and becoming so drunk she couldn’t walk, talk or care for the 5-year-old, police in Cobb County, Ga., said.
LaTonya Norton, spokesman for New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell, said the city is considering installing locking storm drain covers after nearly 150 metal covers, which cost from $250 to $500 each to replace, were stolen over the past year in the city’s 9th Ward.
Harold Holzer, an award-winning historian known for his books on President Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, sold off most of his collection of Lincoln memorabilia, including books, artwork and documents, at a New York auction that raised nearly $300,000.
Charles McNeil initially gave a false name when he was pulled over while riding a stolen farm tractor in Chipley, Fla., but gave his real name when he regained consciousness after a sheriff’s deputy used a stun gun to subdue him as he tried to flee and he fell, hitting his head.
Dan Postemski, a congressional candidate in Connecticut said he hasn’t been actively campaigning because he feels abandoned by state GOP officials and “I said the hell with them and went back to spending time with my family.”
Charles Jordan, 36, of Anderson, Ala., accused of shooting and killing a neighbor who assaulted Jordan’s brother during a dispute over loud music, was indicted on a murder charge and faces life in prison if convicted.
Aurea Vazquez Rijos, a former Puerto Rican beauty queen, faces life in prison after being convicted of offering a man, who was later found guilty of murder, $3 million in 2005 to kill her wealthy Canadian husband just 12 hours after he had asked for a divorce.
Johnny Scott, chief deputy for the Pike County, Miss., sheriff’s office, said that after spending $1,400 to repair the jail’s security fence, someone cut it again and melted an acrylic glass window in the jail so they could pass cellphones in to inmates.