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Claudia Tenney, a first-term Republican New York congressman under fire for saying on a radio talk show that "it's interesting that so many of these people that commit the mass murders end up being Democrats," says the quote is being taken out of context.

Kevin Beasley, coach of an under-10 girls softball team in Lawrenceburg, Ky., said that while he's heard a few complaints, most of the feedback has been supportive of a decision to forge ahead with raffling off an AR-15 rifle to raise money for the team.

Vontyna Durham, 44, a contractor hired to clean up blighted properties in Memphis, was charged with aggravated criminal littering after prosecutors accused Durham of dumping truckloads of tires, debris and garbage along a road and down an embankment in Shelby County.

Stephen Christinzio and James Abbes, two New Jersey state troopers, were honored with Trooper of the Year awards for deactivating two improvised explosive devices found after a pipe bomb exploded along the route of a Marine Corps race in Seaside Park in 2016.

Joseph Mathlin, property manager for a bank branch in DeWitt, N.Y., said the bank is hoping a fake owl will scare off a Cooper's hawk after workers repeatedly complained about finding the feathery remnants of slaughtered pigeons near the front entrance.

Stephan Limani, a Pennsylvania state trooper, said a sleepingwalking student in Hempfield crawled into a middle school through a window screen and walked around for about 15 minutes before waking up and calling 911, prompting school officials to cancel classes to do a security sweep.

Steven Ellam, 27, of Middletown, Conn., was critically burned when he crashed a car filled with gasoline containers into a hospital emergency room and then set himself on fire, authorities said.

Thomas Lucey, a trolley driver from Saugus, Mass., was indicted on insurance-fraud charges after prosecutors said he paid a man $2,000 to attack him while wearing a Halloween mask so he could collect workers' compensation.

Cardinal Joseph Tobin, 65, archbishop of the Roman Catholic diocese in Newark, N.J., raised a few eyebrows with a now deleted tweet that read, "Nighty-night, baby. I love you," which his spokesman described as an errant message intended for one of his eight younger sisters.

A Section on 02/23/2018

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