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Albert, the 84-year-old former king of Belgium, must provide a DNA sample in a paternity case brought by artist Delphine Boel, a 50-year-old woman who claims to be the love child of the former monarch who abdicated in 2013.

Donte Grayer, 26, accused of trying to rob a fast-food restaurant in Macon, Ga., and fleeing after he accidentally shot himself in the thigh, was arrested by sheriff's deputies who found him nearby wearing only his boxers and lying near a wig, money and other clothing.

Jonathan Mustard of Britain's Maritime and Coast Guard Agency said people need to be wary of aggressive coastal seal colonies after a Scottish fisherman had to use his mobile phone to call for help after being chased up a cliff face by dozens of gray seals protecting their young pups.

Jacklyn Davis, a police spokesman in Anne Arundel County, Md., said a man who answered the door with a gun in hand, put it down and then picked it up again was shot and killed as he struggled with officers as they served a court order to remove firearms from his home.

Wendell Popejoy, 64, of Crockery Township, Mich., convicted of fatally shooting a 59-year-old neighbor in December 2017 as she cleared snow from the right of way she and neighbors used to get to their driveways, was sentenced to life in prison, prosecutors said.

Lewis Bennett, 41, a native of Britain, faces eight years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the death of Isabella Hellmann of Delray Beach, Fla., his wife of three months who disappeared as the couple sailed in their 37-foot catamaran off the Bahamas.

Angela Dempsey, a judge in Volusia County, Fla., said a 15-year-old accused of strangling his mother after an argument over bad grades will remain locked up on a premeditated murder charge as prosecutors decide whether to try him as an adult.

Rajuar Akeil Key, 37, of Birmingham, Ala., accused of killing a man he said stole marijuana and owed him money and then setting the body on fire to destroy evidence and delay identification, was indicted on a murder charge, authorities said.

Tammy Stokes, a judge in Chatham County, Ga., was publicly reprimanded by the Georgia Supreme Court for violating the state's Code of Judicial Conduct through "habitual tardiness" and "excessive absenteeism," missing 38 of her scheduled court days in 2017 and 36 so far this year.

A Section on 11/06/2018

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