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Is the Hamburglar a suspect?

A statue of Ronald McDonald was stolen from the outside of a Michigan McDonald’s this week — but police managed to track down the sculpture of the mascot clown.

The Woodhaven Police Department said in a Facebook post Thursday that thanks to “tips from the public and diligent investigat­ive work,” the Ronald statue “was released today by his abductors.”

An Ohio seventh-grader has broken a Guinness World Record by making 52 free throws in one minute.

Ava Pietras, who attends Jefferson Junior High in Toledo, was inspired to make the attempt after her trainer, Anthony Miracola, set the men’s record.

“After Anthony broke the men’s, he gave me the idea to break the women’s, so I looked into it,” Pietras told local media.

A cherry grown in Italy has been dubbed the world’s heaviest.

The “Sweet Stephany” cherry, grown by producer Salvi Vivai in Lagosanto, Ferrara, weighed in at 0.93 ounces, according to Guinness World Records.

UK police were called to help capture a goat that got loose and started chasing cars on a busy road.

The Derbyshire Constabula­ry’s Safer Neighborho­od Policing Team for Melbourne said officers were called to wrangle the goat on Wednesday. Authoritie­s got the goat safely back in its enclosure, but they took the opportunit­y to put out a warning to animal owners.

A Tennessee man nearly missed out on his more than $1 million lottery jackpot after he lost the ticket and it wound up sitting on the ground of a parking lot for about an hour.

“I couldn’t find it anywhere,” Sparta native Nick Slatten told state lottery officials. Slatten immediatel­y began retracing his steps and discovered the ticket in the parking lot of a local business.

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