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Snoop Dogg will premiere a news series on his Merry Jane website, called Planet Snoop, based on his parodies of the Planet Earth documentary series, in which the rapper will provide commentary for nature videos.

Jia Jia, a Chinese writer detained by police at a Beijing airport earlier this month as part of an investigation into an anonymous online petition calling for Chinese President Xi Jinping’s resignation, has been released, according to his lawyer.

Larry Hale, 48, using his metal detector on Florida’s Daytona Beach, found a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ring that Dillon Sprole, 21, of Merritt Island said he accidentally left in a gas station bathroom in Orlando two years ago.

Matthew Doyle, 46, of south London, who was accused of “incitement of racial hatred” for anti-Muslim posts on Twitter after the bombings in Brussels, will not be summoned to court after police said they dropped the charges, pending consultation with government lawyers.

Emily Arianna Warren, 34, was arrested on two counts of desecration of the flag, vandalism and criminal trespassing after Tennessee State Park rangers reported that she took down the U.S. and Tennessee flags at Red Clay State Park and stomped on them.

Derrick LaForest, 33, of Pittsfield, Mass., pleaded innocent to reckless operation and vandalism after police say he pulled his car into a Taco Bell drive-thru after 1:30 a.m., got angry when he found out it was closed and sped off, only to lose control of his car and crash into a nearby building.

Ayana Kelly, whose dog Gucci disappeared from their home in San Antonio in 2013 before her family moved to Norfolk, Va., has been reunited with the American pit bull terrier after a Texas animal shelter tracked down the family based on the dog’s microchip.

Domonic Leuzzi, 23, who taught at the Academy of Virginia Randolph, which serves behaviorally disturbed students, faces charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor after police say he allowed students to smoke marijuana during his shop class.

Petr Foucek, a director from Velke Losiny, a Czech Republic village that’s noted for its factory that crafts traditional handmade paper, said the mill has begun “something new” in a partnership with the Prague Zoo, allowing visitors to make their own paper using elephant dung.