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• Hamdia Ahmed, 20, said a Dunkin' Donuts worker in Portland, Maine, called police after hearing Ahmed and her family speaking Somali while waiting in the drive-thru, telling The Portland Press Herald the store owner apologized and rescinded the no-trespass order issued by police.

• Anthony Knight, 43, was sentenced to 20 years in an Ohio prison after pleading guilty to rape after a high school student's writing assignment about overcoming obstacles disclosed she and two sisters had been sexually abused as children, leading school officials to contact authorities.

• Robert Cameron Brewer, 41, has been arrested on a complaint of threatening to kill by use of explosive after, authorities say, he left a profanity-laced voice mail to The Oklahoman newspaper in Oklahoma City.

• Wheeler Parker Jr., a cousin of Emmett Till, a black teen whose 1955 abduction and murder helped galvanize the civil-rights movement, has been invited to speak at Delta State University in Cleveland, Miss., about the events surrounding Till's death while visiting the state from Chicago.

• Ben Easterlin, director of the Judicial Qualifications Commission, says the Georgia agency is looking into the city of South Fulton's practice of slashing court fines for defendants who agree to register to vote to determine if it violates the Code of Judicial Conduct.

• Gerry Dean Young, 48, of Alabama was charged in the beating death of Anthony Ray Samuel, 53, who was involved with the same woman Young was dating, according to authorities.

• Kristin Gisleson Palmer, a member of the New Orleans City Council, said her ordinance will end the mandatory bike registrations for individual bike owners, adding that she hopes people will still register their bikes voluntarily since that aids in recovering stolen bikes.

A Section on 10/22/2018

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