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Frank Richardson and pastors at RCCG Amazing Grace Chapel made it possible for police in Middletown, Del., to hand out 15 "Caught You Being Good" citations, with each recipient receiving a free turkey.

Shea Dobson, mayor of Ocean Springs, Miss., ordered workers to raise the Mississippi state flag over City Hall after aldermen voted 6-1 to require that the flag be flown over city buildings even though its design includes a Confederate battle emblem.

Kenneth Lincoln, 90, of North Attleborough, Mass., will receive a meritorious-conduct medal from Morocco awarded 70 years after he and other U.S. sailors rushed to fight a fire that broke out among straw huts in Rabat in 1946.

Malachi Duncan, 32, who used another man's identity to enroll at a community college in Hillsboro, Mo., where he got financial aid, housing and a work-study job, faces nearly four years in prison and must pay $57,000 in restitution.

Alicia Fiordellisi, 19, was driving with her cat in her lap when she glanced down after feeling a wet spot on her pants and swerved into a school bus carrying 58 students, injuring several, said police in New Canada, Maine.

Sabein Burgess, 47, who spent nearly two decades in prison after being wrongfully convicted in 1995 of killing his girlfriend, was awarded $15 million by a federal jury in a lawsuit he filed against the Baltimore Police Department and two detectives who botched the investigation.

William Cowan and Ben Hancock, police officers in Gulf Shores, Ala., along with the department's police dog Nitro, created a video widely seen on social media showing the dog sitting up and lying down in time with the two men doing pushups to the song "Eye of the Tiger."

Nikki Cox-Musgrove, 29, of Pearl, Miss., will serve 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to possessing drugs without a prescription and child abuse by exposing her unborn child to opioids.

Bruce Homer, 61, angry over people running a stop sign at a busy intersection, told another driver that he ignored the sign and caused a wreck because police "won't do anything until someone dies," said sheriff's deputies in Clermont, Fla.

A Section on 11/23/2017

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