Jared Buzzel, a Maine man in search of a valuable mineral used in Chinese medicine, cut open a dead porcupine on the side of the road and unexpectedly pulled out its live baby, which he is caring for and plans to give to a licensed wildlife rehabilitator.
Clinton Antonio Ward, 49, was charged with battery, cruelty to children and assault after the Georgia man was accused of beating a 16-year-old boy he caught emerging from a bathroom after showering with Ward’s teenage stepdaughter.
Julio Calzada, Uruguay’s drug czar, said every legal marijuana plant in Uruguay will be registered and tracked using radio frequency tags and that state grown marijuana will be cloned to include genetic markers so authorities can test the drug in any user’s possession to determine if it came from a registered, legal source.
Sara Eremus, spokesman for the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said her agency removed about 260 cats from a Philadelphia home, which had a sign outside that read, “I’m the crazy cat lady. And this is the crazy cat house.” President Barack Obama ended his week long trip to Europe and Saudi Arabia with a private ceremony in which he gave an International Women of Courage award to MahaAl Muneef, a Saudi woman who works to prevent domestic violence in the kingdom.
Steven Fields, 18, of Hull in northeastern Georgia, faces a charge of theft by taking after being accused of spending about $25,000 that a bank teller accidentally deposited into his account.
Juan Elias Garcia, 21, a suspect sought in the killings of his 19-year-old girlfriend and her toddler son, was returned to the United States from Nicaragua to face murder charges just a few days after being added to the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list.
David Velazquez, the head of security for New York’s 1 World Trade Center building, resigned days after the arrests of three sky divers who in September parachuted off the building and about two weeks after a New Jersey teenager sneaked onto the site and climbed to the top of the 1,776-foot tower to take pictures.
Marcus Curry, 27, of Memphis was sentenced to a year and four months in prison for aggravated animal cruelty for killing a puppy, a small mixed-breed named Daisy, by putting it in a dishwasher.
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