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• Guy Gill, a Washington State Patrol trooper, said a driver who saw an object strike the front of his car as he drove on an interstate near Tacoma and stopped for gas 18 miles later found a handgun embedded in his bumper, barrel first with the trigger sticking out, just below the driver's-side headlight.

• Bob Barker, the former host of The Price is Right game show, donated $1 million to his alma mater, Drury University in Springfield, Mo., to pay for scholarships and internships for students in the school's animal studies program.

• Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, presidential candidate, senator and Arkansas first lady, was presented with Harvard University's Radcliffe Medal, which honors those who have had a "transformative impact on society," in recognition of her leadership and human-rights work.

• Dequinta Jack, 19, of Baytown, Texas, was arrested and charged with kidnapping after, police in Lake Charles, La., said, he spent the night with a woman and then bound her with duct tape and covered her head with a pillowcase before dumping her on the side of a road.

• Alvin McNeil, 56, of Prichard, Ala., the former Mobile church pastor found guilty of raping and impregnating a 16-year-old girl and molesting an 11-year-old girl, was sentenced to 50 years in prison, prosecutors said.

• Anwar Ghazali, a Memphis grocery store clerk who is facing a first-degree murder charge in the shooting of a 17-year-old who left the store without paying for beer, told a witness when he returned to the store after chasing the teen with a gun, "I think I shot him," prosecutors said.

• Mary Mayo of Mandeville, La., a former sheriff's deputy who lost the use of her legs a decade ago when a tree fell on her patrol car, killing her fiance, is set to participate Sunday in her first marathon in Buffalo, N.Y., using a pink racing wheelchair.

• Sidney Kilmartin, 56, of Windham, Maine, convicted of mailing a fatal dose of cyanide to a suicidal man in England and then tampering with witnesses in the case, was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison, prosecutors said.

• Nkechi Diallo, the former Washington state NAACP leader known as Rachel Dolezal who was exposed as a white woman pretending to be black, has been charged with welfare fraud, accused of not reporting income from a book and other activities, according to court documents.

A Section on 05/26/2018

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