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Mark Bollinger, a police captain in Rock Hill, S.C., said a 2-year-old boy wounded his grandmother by pulling the trigger of a loaded .357-caliber revolver he found in a seat pouch in the car they were riding in, striking her in the back.

John Dingell, 89, of Michigan, who was the longest-serving member of Congress in U.S. history until he decided to not seek re-election last year, has been released from the hospital after having a pacemaker installed to regulate his heart.

Chelsea Manning, the transgender former Army intelligence analyst now serving a 35-year sentence in a military prison, is suing the FBI for access to files compiled during the agency’s inquiry into her release of classified documents to the WikiLeaks website.

Stanley M. Dallery, 18, was arrested by sheriffs’ deputies in Knox County, Tenn., on assault charges after two women joggers reported being chased in a park in Farragut by a man wearing a clown mask who threatened them with a section of two-by-four.

Richard Helfant, CEO of a group that manages “Lucy,” a deteriorating six-story wood and tin elephant tourist attraction near Atlantic City, N.J., rejected an offer from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to fund part of $58,000 for Lucy’s restoration in return for being able to use it for anti-circus messaging.

Monsignor Konrad Krajewski celebrated a Mass welcoming guests and volunteers to the Vatican’s 34-bed homeless shelter just steps from St. Peter’s Square.

Dennis Blake, 60, of Howland, Ohio., and debilitated by Parkinson’s disease, sat in his electric scooter on the edge of his front lawn and got his wish granted to see one more car show when his wife, Dolly, organized a parade and neighborhood show involving dozens of classic cars.

Yangny Hoang, 24, of Susquehanna Township, Pa., now faces attempted murder and reckless endangerment charges, police said, after proving to an ex-boyfriend on a dare that she had a real handgun in a waistband holster by firing a round that struck a wall and just missed his head.

Stephanie Reinhart, 35, and Mark Jockel, 46, toasted with Gatorade and wore custom bride and groom bibs when they took a four-minute break from the Chicago Marathon to tie the knot under a garden arch festooned with race medals at the marathon’s 8-mile mark in Chicago’s Boystown neighborhood.