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• Gerod Martin, a National Guardsman from Salem, Ore., is facing disciplinary action for posting the comments "Waste of Money," and "They're lucky we aren't executing them" on a social media website trying to raise money for illegal immigrants, an Oregon National Guard spokesman said.

• Martin Gelb, 98, of Derry, N.H., a U.S. Army intelligence officer who worked behind German lines during World War II but whose service wasn't revealed until about a decade ago, was presented the Congressional Gold Medal as a former member of the Office of Strategic Services.

• Katie Arrington, 47, a South Carolina Republican running for a U.S. House seat who was severely injured in a head-on car wreck expected to keep her in the hospital for two weeks, is refusing to drop out of the race, family friend U.S. Sen. Tim Scott said.

• Jennifer Caracciolo, spokesman for the Forsyth County, Ga., School District, called it a "touching tribute" that mourners showed up with backpacks filled with school supplies instead of flowers at the funeral of teacher Tammy Wadell, whose passion was helping students in need.

• Troy Nehls, sheriff of Fort Bend County, Texas, said deputies are seeking three masked men who kicked down the door of a Richmond home and held a 7-year-old boy down in a bathtub of hot water to force the family to turn over cash, cellphones and other valuables.

• Dale Coffee, a fire chief in Russell County, Ky., said a 17-year-old boy was seriously hurt but survived after being pulled from the water after he slipped and fell more than 200 feet from an overlook on Lake Cumberland near the Wolf Creek Dam.

• Rodney Moore, a Los Angeles County sheriff's lieutenant, said investigators are trying to identify who shot and killed a 35-year-old man while he was camping with his two young daughters, ages 2 and 4, in a state park north of Malibu.

• Tom Weger, a police sergeant in Fishers, Ind., said no one was hurt after a man accidentally dropped his loaded handgun into the cushions when he sat on a couch at an Ikea store where it was found by a child who fired a single shot.

• Patrick Marshall, a former police officer in Port Allen, La., filed a federal lawsuit accusing Police Chief Esdron Brown of imposing his religious beliefs on officers and threatening to fire or suspend them for missing mandatory religious counseling sessions.

A Section on 06/26/2018

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