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Larry Sanders, 82, a retired social worker and brother of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the former U.S. presidential candidate, said he'll run as the Green Party candidate for the seat in Parliament vacated by former British Prime Minister David Cameron.

Robbie Knievel, 54, the son of the late motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel, got a two-year deferred sentence for a drunken-driving crash in Butte, Mont., saying he was "definitely guilty" of endangering people involved in a four-car pileup after he ran a red light.

Leith Curtis, 18, along with his quintuplet siblings, Logan, Lucas, Lauren and Lindsey, landed their first jobs at the same McDonald's restaurant in Potterville, Mich., and now share a car and the paying of gas money for the commute.

Chelsea Manning, the transgender soldier serving a 35-year sentence at a military prison in Kansas for leaking classified information to WikiLeaks, will go into solitary confinement for two weeks for a suicide attempt and for possessing a prohibited book, her attorney confirmed.

Alexandra Laird, 21, a pregnant heroin addict, will stay in jail until her baby is born after David Hobdy, a judge in Jefferson County, Ala., said he was concerned for the baby's safety in denying a request that she be released to go into treatment.

Luc Tieman, 32, told Maine State Police investigators that his wife, Valerie, 34, died from a drug overdose, but he was charged with murder after her partially buried body was found in Fairfield and an autopsy showed she had been shot twice in the head.

Patricia Powell, an elementary teacher in Rapides Parish, La., fired in 2001, was awarded $1.15 million by a state judge in a suit she filed claiming the district dismissed her in revenge for comments she made to a newspaper about a former superintendent.

Waylon Horton, 41, of Munfordville, Ky., was charged with product tampering after federal prosecutors said he placed glass shards in cups made in a plant where he worked that were delivered to fast-food restaurants.

Daisy Obi, of Somerville, Mass., a Christian minister from Nigeria convicted of assault and battery for pushing her Muslim tenant in 2012, will spend six months in jail and take a course on Islam after the state Supreme Court rejected her appeal of the sentence she received at trial.

A Section on 09/24/2016

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