Hubert Tang of San Francisco, who said he hadn’t bought a lottery ticket in a decade, used a $20 bill he found on the street outside San Francisco International Airport last week to buy two scratch-off tickets and won a $1 million prize.
Harry Leinenweber, a federal judge in Chicago, acquitted attorney Beau Brindley regarding allegations Brindley coached witnesses to lie on the stand, saying that using “question and answer” scripts to prepare clients and witnesses is the mark of good legal work.
Jenny Scoville Walsh, a new doctor in the University of Texas-Austin residency training program, won a temporary restraining order against the school in a lawsuit she filed claiming that she’s facing dismissal after complaining on Facebook about working 100 hours or more per week.
Robert Barrentine, a principal at Sulphur High School in Lake Charles, La., and Jeff Wainwright, the school’s football coach, led an effort that raised $38,300 for the Louisiana State Troopers Association to honor Steven Vincent, a trooper who was shot to death by a motorist.
Elizabeth Hammer, a circuit judge in Tuscaloosa, Ala., sealed from public view the divorce file of Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley and his wife, Dianne, after the couple’s attorneys argued that “it would be in the parties’ best interest that the public not be able to access the record in this divorce action.”
Virgil Bates III, 40, of Toledo, Ohio, will spend six months in jail and pay $5,600 to the victim after being convicted of aggravated assault for biting off part of his wife’s lover’s ear after finding them in bed together.
Nathan Deal, the governor of Georgia, wants to shift about $50 million from the state’s $350 million lottery reserve fund to reverse cuts to Georgia’s pre-kindergarten program that increased class sizes and cut teacher pay.
Julia Armijo, 20, of Weston, Conn., was tracked down by police using a receipt left in a bag of fast food after she and a friend, Renny Isaac, 23, of Ridgefield, slipped onto a boat at the Norwalk Marina around 2 a.m. to take some selfies but then fled when the flash woke up the boat’s owners.
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev of Russia joined President Vladimir Putin for a workout session and a barbecue breakfast at Putin’s Black Sea residence before watching a sambo martial arts tournament in Sochi, state media said.