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IN THE NEWS: Gunfire at toddler's party leaves 4 dead; dolphin in serious condition after washing up on Mississippi beach; superintendent apologizes to transgender student after drill

Ibrahim Kalin, spokesman for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said the Ankara municipal assembly, under orders from Erdogan, voted unanimously to rename the street on which a new U.S. embassy is being built after the black Muslim civil-rights leader Malcolm X.

Jackie Gonzales says for the first time in her 28 years as county clerk of Wyoming's Albany County there will be a deceased candidate on the ballot after Republican county attorney hopeful Tony Lopez died after ballots were printed, the Laramie Boomerang reported.

Frankie Denor McClendon Jr. was arrested on charges of photographing for lewd purposes after, police say, a woman called officers to report a man was recording a video underneath her dress as she was shopping at a Biloxi, Miss., store.

Harry Little Sr., 67, was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2014 killing of his longtime girlfriend after having previously served 17 years in prison for the 1977 killings of his estranged wife and another man, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

Joseph Patton, 47, a former sheriff's deputy in Tennessee, was sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of sexual battery by an authority figure and three counts of soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor.

Moby Solangi, a veterinarian and executive director of the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport, Miss., said a juvenile female dolphin has pneumonia and is in serious but guarded condition after washing ashore on a Mississippi beach, the Sun Herald of Biloxi reported.

Nathan Brandley, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public safety, said an altercation between two families at a toddler's first birthday party in Taft, Texas, ended in gunfire, leaving four men dead and a fifth wounded.

Scott Kizner, superintendent of Stafford Public Schools in Virginia, apologized to a transgender middle school student who was forced to sit alone during a live shooter drill while other students in her physical education class took shelter in locker rooms.

Kevin McNulty paid $3,350 at a Baltimore middle school festival auction for a jacket worn by actor Dominic West, who plays fictional detective Jimmy McNulty in the HBO series The Wire, saying the "J. McNulty" nametag fits perfectly for his son, James McNulty.

A Section on 10/15/2018

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