Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexico’s president-elect, introduced as his head of security a restaurant owner named Daniel Asaf, who will coordinate a civilian brigade to accompany Lopez Obrador in lieu of a security force that he lambasted for the way it cordons off presidents from the people.
Robert Costigan, a police detective, said an 83-year-old woman was left devastated after two men in the London borough of Greenwich, one of them posing as a plumber, stole valuables from her home, including a locket and a box that both contained her husband’s ashes.
Wendy Thomas of Merrimack, N.H., whose teenage daughters gained notice in 2016 when they snagged selfies with every candidate in the presidential campaign, is making her own bid for office, seeking a seat in the New Hampshire House.
Sean Heavey, a photographer from Glasgow, Mont., filed a lawsuit against Netflix, accusing the company of violating copyright law by using one of his photos without permission to create storm images for the series Stranger Things and the movie How It Ends.
Brad Hovinga, regional supervisor for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, said officials killed two grizzly bears matching the description of those that fatally mauled a hunting outfitter and injured his client in the Teton Wilderness.
Sgt. Edward Karas of the Rosemont, Ill., Police Department and another man, Wright W. O’Laughlin, were arrested on armed-robbery charges, accused of holding up two gas stations in the Chicago area.
Carl Skinner, deputy superintendent in the Hickman Mills School District in Kansas City, Mo., said a program that rewards pupils for perfect attendance, with elementary students having a chance to win $50 each month and those from secondary schools being eligible for a $100 monthly prize, has gotten students “really excited.”
Don Crandall is the subject of an arrest warrant for improper exhibition of a firearm after a viral video that showed him brandishing a gun while trying to prevent four people, most of them black, from getting on an elevator in a Tallahassee, Fla., apartment building, claiming they didn’t belong there.
Robert Crosland, a Preston, Idaho, high school teacher who’s accused of feeding a live, sick puppy to a snapping turtle in front of students, will be tried in his community after a judge rejected prosecutors’ request to move the trial.