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Frank Jackson, the mayor of Cleveland, apologized to the family of Tamir Rice, a black 12-year-old boy fatally shot by a white police officer, after the city sent the boy’s estate a “decedent’s last dying expense” claim of $500 for ambulance services.

Larry Crowson, a lieutenant with the Houston Police Department, said a woman trying to get away from an abusive boyfriend stole an ambulance and led police on a slow-speed pursuit until she finally gave up and was arrested.

Jim Thuss, a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper, and an off-duty deputy are being praised after a dash-camera video shows them dragging 60-yearold Becky Crawford away from her car before flames engulfed the vehicle after a wreck near Belton.

Kirk Englehardt, spokesman for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, said a burst sprinkler damaged two-thirds of the half-million books in the library’s collection, and about 9,000 water-logged volumes are being sent to Texas for special treatment to try to save them.

Faried Said, 21, has been arrested after he broke into a home in Boca Raton, Fla., and made off with $280 that he knew to demand because his 18-year-old victim had recently posted a photo of the money on a social media app, Palm Beach County, Fla., sheriff ’s deputies said.

Christopher Brown, 30, of Brownsville, Pa., has been jailed on kidnapping and indecent assault charges after police say he kept a 15-yearold girl in leg shackles and handcuffs as collateral for a loan to her father, until she was able to free herself and text for help.

Jennifer LaRocca, 40, of Hackettstown, N.J., whose husband was hired to pay the bills of former Saturday Night Live cast member Joe Piscopo, was convicted of illegally writing checks from Piscopo’s account for her own expenses and must repay nearly $171,000.

Antonella Carpenter, 71, who is not a physician but operated clinics in Owasso and Broken Arrow, Okla., and who once had a clinic in Little Rock, was convicted by a Tulsa jury on mail-, travel- and wirefraud counts for falsely claiming that her laser-light treatment killed cancerous tumors.

Joyce Morris, 88, delightedly embraced Norwood Thomas, 93, of Virginia Beach, Va., as they reunited in Adelaide, Australia, nearly 70 years after they were World War II sweethearts in London.