Judge George Gallagher said he allowed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is accused of securities fraud, to be photographed in a suit and tie in his booking photo instead of with the standard white towel around his shoulders, a policy that prevents suspects from being identified on the basis of only their clothes, because of the high-profile nature of the case.
Desmond Tutu, 83, South Africa’s retired archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has been released from a Cape Town hospital, where he was being treated for an infection that was the result of a treatment for prostate cancer.
Gunnery Sgt. Peter Boby, a congressional fellow in the Marine Corps’ Office of Legislative Affairs who is detailed to California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter Jr.’s office, was arrested and charged with possessing an unregistered firearm after a loaded .45-caliber handgun was discovered in his vehicle, said U.S. Capitol Police.
Officer Brian McGraw of the New York Police Department delivered a healthy girl, weighing 6 pounds, 14 ounces, at the World Trade Center train station after the baby’s mother, father and 2-year-old brother couldn’t get to the hospital in time.
Chris Christie, New Jersey’s governor and a Republican presidential candidate, told a New Hampshire crowd that he’s Catholic and has used birth control, adding: “Does that make me an awful Catholic because I believed and practiced that function during part of my life? I don’t think so, but you know what — I’m only going to find out when it’s my time to be judged.”
Chief Gary Will of the Savannah, Ga., Police Department said the tombstone of Queen Haley, whose grandson Alex Haley wrote Roots: The Saga of an American Family, will be cleaned after “White Lives Matter” was spray-painted on it.
Dr. Jan Seski, a Murrysville, Pa., doctor who Zimbabwe officials have accused of killing a lion in an illegal hunt in April, engaged in a “lawfully permitted hunt” in July, according to Seski’s lawyer, Gregory Linsin.
Bishop David Kagan of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bismarck has ordered parishes in western North Dakota to sever sponsorship ties with the Boy Scouts of America after the group’s decision to lift its ban on gay adult leaders.
Dominique Albert, 27, was arrested in St. Petersburg, Fla., accused of trying to carjack an unmarked police car while armed with a steak knife, police said.