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• Wanda Dench, 63, a grandmother from Mesa, Ariz., who began spending her Thanksgiving dinner with Jamal Hinton, 21, after sending him an accidental invitation by text in 2016, continued the tradition with a mini-dinner this year despite losing her husband, Lonnie, to covid-19 last April.

• Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, his wife and their four children, ages 4 to 11, all tested negative for the coronavirus but are quarantining after three children came into contact with a positive-testing California Highway Patrol officer who helps provide security.

• Maria Roske, chief executive of windmill operator WPD, said no one was hurt when a 755-foot-tall wind turbine near Skelleftea, Sweden, part of a planned 72-unit wind farm, toppled into the snow as high winds swept across the arctic region.

• Tiffany Ames, 39, of Crawford, Miss., accused of failing to report all of her income, which resulted in overpayment of $27,300 in federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, was arrested on fraud charges, authorities said.

• Raymond Deskins, 61, of Sterling, Va., faces misdemeanor assault charges after a social media video showed him not wearing a mask and forcefully exhaling on two female protesters outside the Trump National Golf Club where President Donald Trump was playing a round of golf, sheriff’s deputies said.

• Mack Wilemon, coroner in Tishomingo County, Miss., said a 17-year-old from North Carolina was able to call 911 before he died when his hunting stand shifted, causing him to fall about 10 feet and impale himself on the barrel of his rifle.

• Colton Donner, 25, accused of threatening a Black youth in Paola, Kan., with a knife while shouting racial slurs and yelling that the town was a “white” town, was charged with a federal hate crime, prosecutors said.

• Bad Bunny, the Reggaeton singer whose real name is Benito Martinez Ocasio and who won favorite male Latin artist and favorite Latin album at the American Music Awards, has tested positive for the coronavirus, a spokesman said.

• Brendan Ring, the owner of a Cleveland restaurant that was voluntarily closing because of the covid-19 pandemic, called it “an incredibly kind and grand gesture” when a customer with a $7.02 tab for a single beer left a $3,000 tip and told Ring to share it with the four people working the brunch shift.

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