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Robert Eaton Jr., police chief in Townsend, Mass., said an adult boar will be killed and tested for rabies after it attacked two people on a farm, leaving a 38-year-old woman with cuts and a 50-year-old man with life-threatening injuries.

Tiffany Greenoak, 31, who lives in London and is honeymooning in Memphis with husband Robert Greenoak, 40, became the 20 millionth paying visitor to Elvis Presley's Graceland, for which she received a private tour of the home and spoke by phone with the singer's former wife, Priscilla.

Dale Rogers of San Francisco was stopped from cutting down a 100-foot-high Norfolk pine in his backyard after his neighbors campaigned to save it, and city leaders granted it official landmark status.

Andre Achee, the police chief of Bethel, Alaska, which has opened its first liquor store in more than 40 years, said he worries that his six-member department won't be large enough to handle the spike he expects in alcohol-related calls.

Gary Rogers was in a Moncks Corner, S.C., subdivision near his daughter's home when he caught on video an alligator that wandered onto a house's front porch and climbed up the front door, appearing to reach for the doorbell with one of its front legs.

Parnell McNamara, the sheriff in McLennan County, Texas, said a container found under a bridge in Rosebud held a flammable liquid, a detonator, shotgun shells and shrapnel, resulting in a bomb squad being called to disable it and setting off an investigation into who left it and why.

Marlan Byars, 28, and his brother Otis Pegues, 31, face drug and child-endangerment charges after police said the two sold heroin to an undercover officer in the children's play area of a North Versailles, Pa., Burger King while Byars' 6-year-old son was present.

Forrest Bennett, a Democrat running for a seat in the Oklahoma House of Representatives, said he left his car running for just a minute as he campaigned door-to-door in Oklahoma City and turned around to find the vehicle gone, along with campaign materials inside and a key to the post office box where he receives campaign contributions.

Ashley Gibson, 26, a caregiver from Gulfport, Miss., was charged with grand larceny, accused of stealing more than $45,000 in jewelry and fishing equipment from the woman for whom she worked.

A Section on 05/05/2016

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