Steve Bannon, the former chief strategist for President Donald Trump, said conservatives need not worry about Democrats, telling a crowd of about 400 people in St. Louis that they should instead focus on what he called the “corrupt and incompetent Republican establishment.”
Judy Reardon, who served as legal counsel to former New Hampshire Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat, called it “petty and childish” that the office of Republican Gov. Chris Sununu refused to move a potted tree that blocks the Statehouse portrait of Shaheen, the state’s first female governor.
Hugo Romero-Robles, 23, faces charges of driving while intoxicated and felony hit and run, accused of driving into people who were waiting in line for a food truck outside a Durham, N.C., nightclub, injuring seven of them.
Marc Miley of the Lowndes County, Miss., sheriff’s office said nine workers at the county jail in Columbus face “pretty serious discipline” after an armed robbery suspect jammed a cell lock with paper towels or toilet paper and then passed several guards as he escaped through the jail’s front door.
Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkey’s foreign minister, said he offered the “nation’s love and greetings” during a visit with Sinan Narin and Eyup Yildirim, who are imprisoned in the U.S. and accused of attacking protesters in May outside the Turkish ambassador’s home in Washington.
Ecclesiastical Denzel Washington, 53, an asthmatic inmate serving a life sentence for two murders, won a court judgment that orders Missouri to eliminate smoking at its 21 correctional facilities, resolving a lawsuit in which Washington said he was forced to share a cell with a heavy smoker.
Gov. Jerry Brown of California signed a bill naming the Augustynolophus morrisi, a duckbilled creature that lived millions of years ago and has been found only in fossilized remains in California, as the official state dinosaur.
Christopher Wimmer, 35, a former Okaloosa County, Fla., paramedic who took photos with incapacitated victims in ambulances as part of a selfie competition with a co-worker, was sentenced to six months in jail and three years of probation.
Suzanne Stokoe, owner of Stokoe Farms in Scottsville, N.Y., is marking the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in the state by creating a 3-acre corn maze featuring the shapes of activist Susan B. Anthony’s face and her Rochester home.