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Lucas Papademos, 69, the former Greek prime minister who was injured by a mail-bomb explosion in his car, was recuperating well, health officials said, although he will remain in intensive care.

Shadrach Yasiah, 19, won't get a police citation for driving into a freshly poured concrete road in Lincoln, Neb., and getting his car stuck, authorities said, but he could still face a $10,000 bill for the removal of his car and the repouring of the concrete.

Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas drew criticism from the national gun-control group Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence after he went to a range for target practice and then quipped that he was going to carry his target sheet around "in case I see any reporters."

Sgt. Cortez Stafford, an Atlanta fire spokesman, praised the employees of a grocery store on the city's south side for evacuating people when someone ignited an indoor display of fireworks, filling the building with smoke and leading some shoppers to believe a gunman was at large.

Bikram Choudhury, 73, the founder of a style of "hot yoga," faces arrest after a California judge issued a warrant in an unpaid $6.8 million judgment awarded to a former attorney who alleged that she was sexually harassed by Choudhury and fired after investigating allegations that Choudhury had raped a student.

Ronald Thompson was arrested in the theft of a truck and a 5-foot-tall, black-and-white-checkered statue of a swan, police said, after surveillance video showed a naked man holding a bucket in front of himself while trying to get into a Lakeland, Fla., storage center and then driving off with the truck and swan.

Brian Brandt, 40, of Reno, Nev., faces assault and other charges, accused of driving a truck stolen from his former employer into the gate of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch and causing "extensive damage," although the brothel's owner said no one inside was hurt.

Desmond Ricks, 51, walked out of the Michigan prison where he'd been held for 25 years, freed after a judge threw out the case against him because of tests showing that the bullets presented as evidence at his trial weren't the ones taken from the body of the victim.

Joseph Rich, 27, pleaded guilty to manslaughter for stabbing Juan Legarda Jr. with a bayonet on New Year's Day in Rapid City, S.D., and faces up to 10 years in prison.

A Section on 05/27/2017

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