Waseem Azeem, the brother of slain Pakistani model Qandeel Baloch, confessed after his arrest that he strangled his sister for “family honor” because she posted “shameful” photos on Facebook, including one taken with a prominent Muslim cleric.
Ajay Shankar Rai, a police officer in India’s Uttar Pradesh state, said at least 19 people died, six were blinded, and at least 50 others fell ill after consuming home-brewed liquor from a village shop that was selling pouches of the illicit liquor for 4 cents each, six times cheaper than the legal drink.
Tony Helms, sheriff of Geneva County, Ala., said more than 850 marijuana plants were cut down and burned after lawmen spotted the plants from inside a state police helicopter flying over southern Alabama.
Lili Huang, 35, of Woodbury, Minn., faces felony charges after holding a starving Chinese immigrant in a state of “slavery or indentured servitude,” a prosecutor said, after the woman, 58, was found wandering in a street with broken bones, later telling police that she was looking for an airport so she could go home to China.
Jolene Byrne, School Board president in the Savannah-Chatham County district in Georgia, said officials have thus far delayed making dress-code changes for teachers, which were proposed after the district received complaints about staff members with piercings, tattoos, stilettos and revealing necklines.
Scott Lynn, coroner for Montour County, Pa., said an 8-year-old boy died after he was found unresponsive in a swimming pool at Knoebels Amusement Park and Resort.
Lj Langelier of Lewiston, Maine, tried to check the balance on his electronic benefits transfer card but discovered that, as a result of a state error on some cards, dialing the phone number listed on the back connects callers to a sex line instead.
James Troiano, spokesman for the Flagler County, Fla., sheriff’s office, said a man who had heard a noise outside his home about 1:30 a.m. fired a handgun at two teens in a car who had been playing Pokemon Go but sped away when the man approached them.
Isreal Leggette, 15, of Northwoods, Mo., was charged as an adult in the fatal shooting of a 23-yearold man during a would-be iPhone sale arranged on Facebook with the man’s girlfriend, who escaped unharmed with their 3-yearold son.