James Hendron Jr., 45, faces murder and domestic violence charges after police in Lexington, Ky., said he fatally shot his son Austin Hendron, 23, when the two men got into an argument in the driveway of a home on Father’s Day.
Laurel Clewell, state commander of Wisconsin’s American Legion, called it “despicable” and plans to seek a divorce after learning her husband, Howard “Gordy” Clewell, lied about his military service by claiming he was a decorated Vietnam veteran when he actually served as an Army caseworker in Germany.
Richard Maierle, a police captain in Clinton Township, Mich., said a 37-year-old woman was arrested after police helped three girls, ages 2, 3 and 6, by coaxing the 6-year-old, who was “sweating profusely,” into unlocking a door of a hot minivan where they had been left while the woman shopped.
Karin Welsh, an assistant coroner in Teeside, England, said a man who died while celebrating his 22nd birthday with friends “sadly realized” the vest he was wearing wasn’t stab-proof when, trying to demonstrate, he grabbed a kitchen knife and plunged it into his chest.
Edmund McDowell, a New York Marine Bureau officer, took about 10 minutes using his personal metal detector to find a $20,000 engagement ring that a woman lost on the beach on Fire Island, authorities said.
Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, who calls himself a soldier in the global campaign to legalize marijuana, said he is joining the board of directors of the cannabis publication High Times.
Stephen Wheeles, an Indiana State Police sergeant who tweeted a photo of a car he stopped for driving too slowly in the left lane of an interstate south of Indianapolis, leaving about 20 vehicles lined up behind it, said he’s overwhelmed by the widespread praise he’s receiving online.
Paul Miller, 27, of Lafayette, La., was indicted by a federal grand jury, accused of phoning in a bomb threat in September to a restaurant at Trump Tower, President Donald Trump’s skyscraper in Manhattan, N.Y.