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Curtis Jones, 29, the nation’s youngest convicted murderer who was 12 years old in 1999 when he was arrested and convicted of second-degree murder for plotting with his 13-year old sister to kill a male relative who they said sexually abused them, has been released from a South Bay, Fla., prison after serving 16 years of an 18-year sentence.

Damarias Cockerham, a Garland, Texas, man blamed for a security breach at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, faces a criminal trespass charge after authorities say he sneaked onto a jet bound for Guatemala to try to stop his girlfriend from leaving.

Matthew Sanchez, an Albuquerque, N.M., 911 dispatcher, has been removed from duty after telling a caller who was trying to save the life of a shooting victim to “deal with it yourself,” after the caller cursed at Sanchez for repeatedly asking if 17-year-old Jaydon Chavez-Silver, who died of his injuries, was still breathing.

Zion Harvey, an 8-yearold from Owings Mills, Md., who lost his hands and feet to an infection, has become the youngest patient to receive a double hand transplant, said surgeons at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, told several dozen ambassadors and military attaches at an event sponsored by the U.S. Mission to the United Nations that the world risks “becoming immune to suffering” caused by escalating global security threats, adding that “if that happens, I don’t know where it stops.”

Tiffany Oakley, a Bradley County, Tenn., sheriff’s deputy who shot and killed an unknown man who attacked her outside her home, is being treated at a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said, adding that she is on paid leave while the shooting is investigated.

Ramon Benitez-Mendoza, 41, who has been deported to Mexico six times and was arrested earlier this year in Gautier, Miss., on charges of disorderly conduct and failure to comply with authorities, has been charged in a Mississippi federal court with illegal re-entry by an aggravated felon.

Desmond Tutu, 83, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was hospitalized a week ago and received antibiotics to treat an infection, has been readmitted to a Cape Town, South Africa, hospital after complaining of discomfort, said his daughter, Mpho Tutu.

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