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Henry Heimlich, the 96-year-old surgeon credited with developing his namesake Heimlich maneuver, used the emergency technique for the first time himself to help an 87-year-old woman choking on food at his senior-living center in Cincinnati.

John Hickenlooper, the governor of Colorado and a Democrat, said he was just having a little fun when he showed up for a Denver book signing sporting a pair of socks featuring caricatures of presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.

Paul Deaton, 51, and his wife, Jacqualine, 48, both of Colfax, Iowa, face drug and child-endangerment charges stemming from an afternoon traffic stop by a Jasper County sheriff's deputy who said he detected a heavy odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle, which was being driven by a 13-year-old.

Joseph Martin was arrested by police in Anchorage, Alaska, on burglary, drunken-driving and other counts after a witness said Martin used a stolen front-end loader to break into a liquor store before leading officers on a 15-mph chase.

Leonora Cillay, 41, of Cary, N.C., is accused of driving her car into a lake with her 6-year-old son in her lap, police said, and now faces a charge of attempted first-degree murder after the two were saved by a family who had just launched a pontoon boat before the car sank.

Chip Michalove caught Chessie, a tagged 1,400-pound tiger shark, off Hilton head Island, S.C., for the second time in 12 months while fishing, with researchers saying the shark had traveled 2,000 and gained about 200 pounds.

Kazem Shirinzad, 35, a New York City tow truck driver, was charged by Bergen County, N.J., prosecutors with animal cruelty, accused of dousing a kitten in motor oil and abandoning it inside a tied box.

Joseph Walker, police chief in Ringwood, N.J., said one of his officers, 33-year-old Douglas Faber, broke his wrist and needed 13 stitches to close a cut on his head while trying to remove a large branch after he was struck by a falling tree.

Andy Holt, a Republican state representative in Tennessee and a longtime critic of traffic-camera tickets, posted a video on social media of him setting such a ticket ablaze, saying in a release: "What do you do if you get one? Throw it in the trash. Personally, I prefer to burn mine."

A Section on 05/28/2016

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