B. Harold Smick Jr., 91, of Salem, N.J., who was just 15 when he watched Franklin D. Roosevelt being sworn in to a third term as president in 1941, will travel to Washington today to witness his 18th presidential inauguration and see Donald Trump take the oath of office.
David Vogt III, a Republican Maryland state legislator, said he fired “on the spot” Cameron Harris, one of his legislative aides, when he learned from news accounts that Harris was behind a fake-news site that accused Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton of election-rigging.
Aylin Nazliaka, a Turkish lawmaker, handcuffed herself to the parliament rostrum to protest proposed constitutional changes designed to give President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s office executive powers, sparking a fight with other female legislators that resulted in two being hospitalized in Ankara.
Shayla Rudolph, 18, of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, was arrested on an abduction charge after, police said, she live-streamed herself using clear packing tape to bind her 2-year-old son’s mouth and fasten him to a wall.
Conrad Rudalavage, 49, fell asleep after drinking and woke up convinced by a dream that his wife was cheating on him, prompting him to attack her and then their teenage daughter until a neighbor intervened, police in Archibald, Pa., said.
Nina Saria, 34, of Egg Harbor City, N.J., whose kidney donor she found on Craigslist in 2015 was deemed ineligible for transplant, has received a kidney from her mother, who was granted special permission to travel from the Republic of Georgia for the procedure.
Lloyd Cunniff, a Montana beekeeper, said it appears that thieves used semitrailers to steal 488 hives containing about 190,000 bees that he had taken to Yuba City, Calif., to fulfill a contract he had to pollinate almond trees.
Mark Ramos, an investigator with the Michigan Humane Society, said a $2,500 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who maimed a Rottweiler-mix dog found in Detroit with its ears and nose cut off.
Emma Wiley, 19, of Marblehead, Mass., will serve four years in prison after being convicted of assault and other charges for biting off part of an officer’s ear as she was being put into a police cruiser during her arrest in a fracas outside a bar.