Greg Nimmo, a senior agent with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, delivered his second baby, a healthy girl, after the driver of an Uber car parked near the Lincoln Tunnel and called for help, saying the mother “couldn’t wait” long enough to get to a hospital.
Barvetta Singletary, 37, a special assistant to the president and legislative liaison at the White House, was placed on unpaid leave after being indicted on allegations that she fired a shot at a Capitol Police officer at her home after a sexual encounter.
Blair Delson and her soon-to-be husband, Ross Cohen, spent the afternoon before their wedding taking photos at romantic spots around Philadelphia but ended up being photo-bombed by thousands of nude and body-painted bicyclists who rolled past during the Philly Naked Bike Ride.
Shani Robinson, a former Atlanta elementary school teacher who was the last of 10 educators to be sentenced for inflating student test scores, will serve a year in prison and four months on probation after being found guilty of racketeering and other charges.
Matthew Wright , co-owner of Angel’s Island Coffee Shop in Huntsville, Ala., said the shop’s food truck is out of commission after thieves stole two generators, costing the owners $10,000 in equipment replacement and lost sales.
Valerie Herrera, 17, of Chicago was among people in three American cities offered an opportunity to speak via satellite with Pope Francis at the Vatican ahead of his visit to the U.S., and sang “By You, Mary” in Spanish after weeping and telling him she had turned to music because of being bullied, and he asked her to sing for him.
Janine Vaccarello, chief operating officer of the National Museum of Crime & Punishment in Washington, D.C., said the museum is looking for a new home after it failed to meet ticket sales quotas set in its lease.
Jeff Mizanskey, 62, left a Missouri prison where he had been the only inmate serving a life sentence for a nonviolent marijuana offense, after Gov. Jay Nixon commuted his 1996 sentence for selling 6 pounds of “pot.”
Pierre Anthony Mendez, 23, is charged with misdemeanor interfering with a police service animal after officers in Austin, Texas, said he punched the right hindquarter of a patrol horse during a fistfight outside a club in the city’s downtown, startling but not hurting the animal.