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Terry Preshaw, a Mukilteo, Wash., attorney, has been reunited with her Finke Triple Horn — five years after it was stolen out of her unlocked car — thanks to a man who bought the German-made brass horn at a Redmond pawnshop in 2011 and tracked Preshaw down after reading about the theft.

Andrew Halpin, a Sarasota, Fla., police officer shown on video tossing food to a handcuffed man at a jail and then allowing the man, who was homeless and appeared intoxicated, to eat off the floor, has resigned, the department announced.

Robert Gray, 46, a truck driver who won the Democratic nomination for Mississippi governor and will face Republican Gov. Phil Bryant in the general election, said he doesn’t know how he won, especially since he didn’t spend any money on his campaign and didn’t even vote in the primary because he was busy.

Edward Khan of the Jefferson County, Ala., Health Department said an unidentified patient whose symptoms and recent travel caused concerns about Ebola has tested negative for the virus.

Wojciech Braszczok, 34, a former New York undercover police detective who busted out a taillight on Alexian Lien’s Range Rover and failed to call 911 or intervene as nearly a dozen bikers pulled Lien out of his SUV and beat him for running over one of the motorcyclists, has been sentenced to two years in jail.

Former P resident George W. Bush appeared for jury duty at a Dallas courthouse but was not selected, said his spokesman Freddy Ford.

Cesar Mazza, 25, a Pittsburgh man who is accused of fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend, 19-year-old Tionna Banks, and beating her 72-year-old grandmother Valorie Crumpton to death because Banks wouldn’t name their newborn son after him, has been ordered held without bail on two counts of criminal homicide and a charge of kidnapping the 11-week-old.

Kaleb Clement, 23, of Paulina, La., has been arrested in Jefferson Parish on drunken-driving and hitand-run counts, police said, after he crashed his 2012 Dodge Challenger through two fences at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.

Gabriele Markel, 20, is in good condition at an Anchorage hospital after being bitten and scratched on her head, back and arm by an adult grizzly bear while running on a trail in Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula.

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