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Summer Burgos' 2-year-old dog, Joker, bolted from his crate at a Fort Lauderdale airport after Burgos flew him to Florida to live with her family while she trains in the Navy, but Joker was found 4 miles from the airport eight days later and reunited with Burgos.

Sherwin Shayegan, 34, of Washington faces child-endangerment charges after Shayegan massaged a 14-year-old boy's back without the boy's permission at the Newark, N.J., airport, and gave the teen a note with money inside and a thank-you message that included "alarming content," New Jersey authorities said.

Kent Dill, deputy coroner for Greenville County, S.C., said authorities were hunting Saturday for two people who dropped off the body of a 20-year-old man at a hospital and left before anyone could ask questions.

Shawn Bronson and Michael Payne, both Comcast technicians, were restoring service to customers in Monson, Mass., when they saw a 2-year-old girl wearing only a diaper in 9-degree weather wander into traffic, and after scooping her up and taking her to a grocery store where they awaited police, her father was located and faces a reckless-endangerment charge.

Cody Hassler, 34, of Washington, Mo., faces burglary, stalking and theft charges after telling officers that he has an "underwear fetish" and sneaked into the home of a mother and her teenage daughter to steal a garment, police said.

Donna Byrne, 53, was found by a Polk County, Fla., judge to be unfit to care for her horse and was ordered to undergo treatment for alcohol addiction after authorities said she rode the animal down a highway while drunk.

Sanjiv Patankar, a New Jersey colon and rectal surgeon, had his doctor's license suspended after state officials said he reused disposable anal catheters on multiple patients.

Sheila Harosky sued Washington Hospital in Pennsylvania, where the 45-year-old once worked, after she discovered that nude photos of her were taken while she was undergoing surgery, in what the hospital says was an extension of a practical joke Harosky participated in by putting fake intestines on her body before the surgery.

Josh Darnell, 31, of Londonderry, N.H., didn't let minus-34-degree weather deter him from proposing to Rachel Raske, 27, of Lowell, Mass., dropping to his knee to pop the question as the two hiked on Mount Washington.

A Section on 12/31/2017

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