• Bradley Hardison, 27, of Elizabeth City, N.C., whose 2014 victory in a police-sponsored doughnut-eating contest -- while he was wanted on suspicion of several break-ins -- led to his arrest and conviction, faces fresh theft charges, this time in a break-in at a doughnut shop.
• Kimberly Taylor, a high school junior in Rochester, Vt., will have to decide on a new school to attend after the town voted to close its combined middle and high school, which has just three students after many teachers quit and most students decided to go to other schools.
• Daniel Hall, 30, and Vincent Franchino, 26, Army captains who met in 2009 when they were cadets at West Point, were married in the Cadet Chapel in what is believed to be the first same-sex marriage of active-duty personnel at the New York military academy.
• Alva Campbell, 59, who was sentenced to death for fatally shooting a man, must have the option of being killed by a firing squad, his attorneys argued, after his execution in Ohio by lethal injection was stopped last year because executioners couldn't place an IV line.
• Fronta Pernell McCrorey, 36, was arrested in a shooting at a convenience store, even after Rock Hill, S.C., police said they were told that he was not in the house they were searching, when he was found hiding behind a false wall behind a toilet.
• Scott Ray Bishop of Utah faces up to 20 years in prison after he was convicted of unlawfully engaging in the business of manufacturing machine guns and illegal possession of machine guns, with prosecutors saying he sold kits to convert semi-automatic weapons into machine guns.
• Kristi Del Curto, an official at Albuquerque School of Excellence in New Mexico, said a fifth-grade girl took a box of gummies to school and shared them with friends, not realizing the candies were laced with THC and were being used by the student's parents as medical marijuana.
• Ali Roba, the governor of Kenya's Mandera County, blamed devices that Britain might have planted during its colonial occupation and asked security agents to clear fields, after four children were killed in an explosion while they were grazing livestock.
• Vicky Keahey, the president of an exotic animal sanctuary in Wylie, Texas, that recently received two new white tigers, said keeping the felines illegally is a serious problem in Texas, estimating that there are more tigers in the state than in the wild.
A Section on 01/22/2018