Bobby O’Brien, road superintendent in Sandisfield, Mass., which lost its snowplowing fleet in a fire, said three used plow trucks donated to the town by officials in Quincy need a little work but are in good condition and “will get through the winter with some TLC.”
Shelly Stratman, a district judge in Douglas County, Neb., dismissed a burglary charge against a bounty hunter who broke into and searched an Omaha family’s home before realizing he was in the wrong house, saying the conduct was allowed by the “broad powers” granted bail bondsmen.
Janice Page-Johnson, school superintendent in Greenville, Miss., said district leaders are considering corporal punishment for misbehaving students if parents sign a form giving permission for their children to be paddled.
Richie Donovan said he and several other people first tried to push a stranded vehicle off railroad tracks in Congers, N.Y., as a freight train approached but then had to pull a woman out just before the train hit and pushed the car down the tracks.
Michael van Eyck, an assistant manager at the Bromley Mountain ski area in Peru, Vt., said crews took about two hours to rescue 115 skiers who became stranded high in the air when strong winds derailed a chairlift, causing it to stop abruptly.
Conrad Hein, a sergeant with the Texas Department of Public Safety, said that three people died and two others were injured when a vehicle slammed into a wild hog and swerved into the path of an oncoming SUV on a rural road near Uvalde, about 110 miles southwest of San Antonio.
Eric Love, a Georgia preacher, filed a federal lawsuit saying his free-speech rights were violated when he was barred in May from preaching on sidewalks outside Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park where thousands of people were attending a music festival.
Bill Dorris, owner of a statue of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest on private property south of downtown Nashville, Tenn., said he plans to leave the pink paint sprayed on by vandals, saying it will draw even more attention by turning red in the sunlight.
Jacki Grossman of Stony Brook, N.Y., said she “couldn’t feel more blessed” by having both her sons born on Christmas Eve when her second son, Elliott, was delivered on the same day, albeit four years later, as his older brother, Oliver.