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Bruce Lorenz, 86, was unanimously elected to another term as mayor of Ruso, N.D., capturing all three votes that were cast in the state's smallest incorporated area, which had a 100 percent turnout of its eligible voters.

Kirsten Koryciak, an off-duty Houston police officer, helped a diabetic man by paying to replace groceries that were stolen as the man was being treated by paramedics after he collapsed in a parking lot as he left the store.

Lindsey Kamin, an Atlanta attorney, faces false-imprisonment charges for kicking two police officers out of her home as they investigated a suspicious-vehicle complaint and ordering her personal security guard to keep them from leaving the driveway because she wasn't sure they were real officers.

Douglas Kelly, 49, of Hawthorne, Fla., who called sheriff's deputies to complain he'd been sold the wrong illegal drug, was arrested on drug-possession charges after meeting with detectives who reportedly determined the substance Kelly bought was methamphetamine.

Bill Potts, spokesman for an aquarium in Clearwater, Fla., said Frito, an inch-and-half-long seahorse nursed back to health after it was found trapped in discarded fishing line in some garbage floating in the Gulf of Mexico, has been released back into the wild.

Jacob Blair, senior class president at a high school in Alton, N.H., wore a cap and gown and got his diploma in a special commencement ceremony two days ahead of his classmates because he had to leave early to attend National Guard training in Alabama.

Wilbert Gray, 42, a former high school counselor from New Orleans, faces a decade in prison after pleading guilty to aggravated battery for attacking a man with a baseball bat in what prosecutors described as a road-rage incident after a minor traffic accident.

Miranda Polston, 35, of Somerset, Ky., was sentenced to 20 years in prison for violating her probation for burglary and other convictions after prosecutors said she forced her 14-year-old daughter to drink whiskey until she fell to the floor.

Joe Bauer, 19, who slogged more than 100 yards through a sewer lagoon in Fort Benton, Mont., to save a stuck fawn, called the rescue a rewarding experience even though his co-workers "didn't want him anywhere near them" until he showered and changed clothes.

A Section on 06/15/2018

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