In the news

Kevin Fagan, 23, a juror in the trial of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, said he probably would not have voted for the death penalty had he known that the families of some victims preferred a life sentence.

Hunter Dawkins, a Democrat who lost a primary for a Mississippi state House seat, decided not to challenge his one-vote loss to avoid having to pay about $10,000 to take an appeal to court.

Amber McBride, 21, of Altoona, Pa., pleaded guilty to child endangerment and was sentenced to 10 to 23 months in prison for allowing her boyfriend, Christopher Kelly, to watch her toddler son even though Kelly, now in prison for hurting the child, was on probation for an earlier conviction on abusing the boy.

Rafael Luna, 56, a teacher at Valley Vista High School in Surprise, Ariz., was charged with trafficking heroin and cocaine after a drug-sniffing dog in Canadian County, Okla., found 15 pounds of cocaine and 1.2 pounds of black tar heroin in a vehicle Luna was driving, according to sheriff’s office officials who also said Luna told deputies that he was trafficking drugs as a summer job.

Ian Westworth, a clocksmith for Britain’s Parliament, said pennies are being placed on the pendulum of the 156-year-old Big Ben to fine-tune its speed after its chimes were found to be off by as much as 6 seconds.

Jay McGraw, an alderman from Lumberton, Miss., has made restitution but hasn’t been charged after being caught on security camera footage stealing a $26 cigarette lighter from a convenience store, an experience he called “humbling” and “embarrassing.”

Charity Charamba, a Zimbabwe police spokesman, said a lion charged and killed a safari guide who was leading a group of tourists in Hwange National Park, the same park that was the home of Cecil, the lion killed by an American bow hunter.

Malachi Bradley, 10, told rescuers that he remembered survival skills his father taught him and curled up between rocks still warm from the sun to survive a cold night after getting lost in a remote section of Utah’s Uinta Mountains about 200 miles east of Salt Lake City.

Terri Roth, head of the Cincinnati Zoo’s Center for Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife, said Harapan, the last Sumatran rhino in the United States, will be sent to Indonesia on a mission to mate and help preserve his critically endangered species.

Upcoming Events