Jermaine Shirley, a New York City postman, caught two 11-month-old twin brothers tossed one at a time from the third floor of a burning building in the Bronx, the Daily News reported.

Melissa Brittingham, 44, a woman applying for a job at a Five Guys restaurant in Rehoboth Beach, Del., pleaded guilty to theft and received one year of probation and also must pay a $500 fine and court costs for taking about $15 from two tip jars.

Bernhard Goetz, 65, who in 1984 shot four black teens with an illegal handgun on a subway train in Manhattan, saying it was self-defense, refused to take a deal offered by Manhattan prosecutors to resolve a case in which he was accused of selling $30 worth of marijuana to an undercover officer.

Casey Anthony, who was acquitted of murder in 2011 in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, will not have to pay most of her debts after a Florida bankruptcy judge discharged what she owes except for debts related to student loans or criminal fines.

Tammi Kromenaker, the director of North Dakota’s lone abortion clinic, attributed a drop this year in pregnancy-ending procedures in part to new legislation she says has confused some women into thinking abortion in the state is now outlawed.

Noel Delgado, a New Haven, Conn., man who climbed a tree decorated with Christmas lights in a park near Yale University, carrying two banners and shouting about various causes, was charged with breach of peace after officers persuaded him to climb down.

Eldo Kim, 20, a Harvard student accused of making a bomb threat to get out of a final exam, was released on $100,000 bond into the custody of his sister, who lives in Massachusetts, and an uncle from North Carolina.

Genora Dancel, one of the Hawaii women who sparked the national same sex marriage battle with a lawsuit more than 20 years ago, is now legally married to Kathryn Dennis, her domestic partner of 15 years, after her marriage license was approved by the same clerk who denied her license in 1990.

Michael Skakel, 53, the Kennedy cousin who was released from prison in Connecticut last month after he was granted a new trial in the 1975 slaying of neighbor Martha Moxley, has been granted permission to travel to see his son in New York and other relatives in Oregon.

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