Michael Flynn, the former U.S. national security adviser who faces scrutiny from investigators looking into Russia’s possible meddling in the 2016 election, tweeted that he is “very grateful” for siblings Joe Flynn and Barbara Redgate, who established a fund to raise money for his legal defense.
Eirik Jensen, 60, a fired police officer in Norway, was sentenced to 21 years in prison for helping import more than 15 tons of hashish in what Judge Kim Heger described as “the biggest drug case in Norway’s legal history.”
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the House’s top Democrat, was interrupted during an event in her home state of California by dozens of young illegal immigrants who criticized her for negotiating with President Donald Trump over the future of the program that grants many of them legal status.
Carla Lachelle Mitchell, 49, a former Internal Revenue Service employee from Kansas City, Mo., pleaded guilty to filing 27 false federal income tax returns over three years for herself and for friends and family members, fraudulently netting about $118,000.
Tyler Wood, who was 18, the minimum voting age, in November when he defeated an incumbent for a seat on the election commission in Forrest County, Miss., has decided to step down*.
Claudia Riegel of New Orleans’ Mosquito, Termite and Rodent Control Board cited people feeding squirrels as the reason for several recent attacks by aggressive squirrels in the city’s Lake Vista area, which led to the capture of three animals.
Justin Brown, 39, and Amanda Mollison, 29, pleaded guilty to charges and received 51-month terms in federal prison after Mollison mailed to the Collin County, Texas, jail a greeting card soaked in liquid meth and intended for Brown.
Pat Payaso of Boston, whose last name means “clown” in Spanish, has donned a rainbow wig, red nose and clown makeup in material for his City Council campaign, leading City Councilman Annissa Essaibi George to accuse him of making a “mockery” of the election.
Sean Haller, 39, of Stewartstown, Pa., was arrested on charges including criminal trespass after a woman called police to report that Haller had drunkenly forced his way into her home, sat down with two 12-packs of beer and refused to leave, in what authorities said was a repeat of an earlier incident at another woman’s home.
*CORRECTION: Tyler Wood is stepping down from the seat on the Forrest County, Miss., Election Commission that he won in November 2016, at the age of 18. Wood’s decision was incompletely described in a previous version of this story.