Ashley Thomas, spokesman for the South Carolina Revenue Department, said state law defines “booze pops,” frozen ice pops made with alcohol and sold to adults in the Charleston area from a van along with nonalcoholic treats for children, as food and not alcohol despite calls for a new interpretation.
Jonathan Ray of Albuquerque, N.M., said he plans to do something special for his mom on Mother’s Day now that a 2015 burglary charge against him was dropped regarding a pot of posole stew his mother told him to stay away from, the ruling judge noting that she was the case’s only witness.
Steven Seagal, the action-film star who was given Russian citizenship by President Vladimir Putin last year and defends the Russian leader’s policies, has been banned from entering Ukraine for five years “on the basis of Ukrainian national security,” officials said.
Afraa Bilan, a Syrian refugee now living in Calgary, Alberta, and her husband, Muhammad, named their new baby Justin Trudeau Adam Bilan in gratitude to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his policies that allow refugees to enter the country.
Julian Coker, 36, of Macon, Ga., was charged with inciting a riot after deputies reviewed videos of a brawl that included thrown punches and chairs when 150 members of Greater Bellevue Baptist Church gathered for a vote on whether to retain the church’s pastor.
Bradley Muncy, 32, of Johnson City, Tenn., faces an aggravated-assault charge after witnesses told police that he smacked a friend over the head with a guitar when the two men got into an argument on a sidewalk outside a downtown apartment building.
Jeff Morris, spokesman for Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan., said state police are investigating the hanging of a noose in a tree outside a chemistry department building in what is being viewed as the latest of several on-campus racial incidents.
Paddy Abdul Halim, a deputy customs director in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, said inspectors seized 1,570 pounds of scales stripped from pangolin anteaters and used as an Asian folk remedy, in bags shipped from Kinshasa, Congo.
Joey Torres, the mayor of Paterson, N.J., accused of paying city workers overtime to work at a family business, raised money for his legal defense fund by hosting a Hudson River cruise where about 300 supporters paid from $150 to $250 per person to attend.