In the news
Emily Acor of Orem, Utah, was on her way to a hospital to give birth when her water broke, causing her mother to stop and flag down two women who helped deliver Acor’s new daughter, Sophia, in the middle of an intersection.
Angelica Dee Cunningham, 7, a second-grader in Huntington, N.Y., wrote a letter and was all smiles when she learned town officials granted her request to rename for one day the community to “Hauntington” on Halloween.
Chris Ruden, a power lifter and motivational speaker who had his $150,000 prosthetic forearm and hand stolen out of his pickup in Boynton Beach, Fla., got the black carbon device back when officers found it in some bushes near an apartment complex, police said.
Susan Westwood, a white woman from Charlotte, N.C., cited by police for communicating threats and simple assault, was fired from her $125,000 cable company job after she was filmed going on a racist rant at a black neighbor as she waited for a tow truck in a parking lot.
Chuck McPhilamy, a police spokesman in Marietta, Ga., said a sheriff’s deputy trying to stop two people from breaking into a parked vehicle fired several rounds toward a moving vehicle after he was struck driving from the scene.
Matthew Dippel, a Michigan photographer, said he used social media to track down the California couple he photographed in the midst of a bended-knee proposal at Taft Point, the unfenced Yosemite National Park overlook where two other people died last week in a fall.
Holly Colino, 32, of Rochester, N.Y., who pleaded guilty to randomly shooting a 33-year-old woman as she ate lunch in a park, is awaiting sentencing to give court-appointed experts time to examine her claim that she wasn’t responsible for the act due to mental disease or defect.
Michael Kilkenny, director of the health department in Huntington, W.Va., called the death of Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter Nick Catone’s infant son tragic but not the result of childhood vaccines after more than 30 billboards with anti-vaccine messages popped up in several states.
Johnny Williams, a police sergeant in Birmingham, Ala., said a masked gunman was shot and killed by an armed customer, who, along with his son, was wounded in an exchange of gunfire that began when the suspect opened fire inside a McDonald’s restaurant.