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In the news

• Luis Octavio Frias, 34, has been added to the U.S. Marshals Service's 15 Most Wanted list over the 2013 killing of his ex-wife, Janett Reyna, a former police officer in Oklahoma whom authorities said Frias stabbed 41 times in front of their three children.

• Justin Jones, 23, was arrested along with Antonio Tolman-Duran, 27, and Dakota Murphy, 21, on assault and reckless-endangering charges, accused by authorities in Portland, Ore., of setting up a booby trap of woven string across a walking and bike path, resulting in a cyclist getting injured.

• Kyle Penniston, a Florida trapper, captured a 17-foot-5-inch female Burmese python as part of a program that has helped remove 1,859 of the snakes, an invasive species, from the Everglades.

• Paul Frye, an animal-control officer in Augusta, Maine, was on a mission to find a loose chicken when he found the black fowl and solicited the help of another officer and two residents to wrangle the bird, saying it took four people to not "look stupid doing it."

• Kenneth Gravitt, 63, a Texan who operated a Kentucky recycling company, was sentenced to three years in prison for improperly disposing of cathode-ray tubes, which contain lead, after the business took in more waste than it could handle and began dumping it at a landfill and in a hole behind a recycling facility.

• Virginia Raggi, Rome's mayor, was acquitted of charges that she lied to anti-corruption officials about her involvement in appointing the brother of her top aide to a prestigious tourism position, a decision she said was hers alone but that prosecutors contend was orchestrated by the aide.

• Jack Dillon Young, 21, of Leakey, Texas, was sentenced to 55 years in prison for causing a church-bus crash in south Texas that killed 13 people, with authorities saying he drove his pickup after smoking marijuana and taking a prescription sedative.

• Edie House Foster, a spokesman for Baltimore's public schools, said a student at a high school will be disciplined after a video of the student punching a teacher in the face was posted online and viewed more than 60,000 times.

• Kathryn Green, an Oklahoma woman said to be the mother of a newborn who was found dead in a trash bin, has been ordered to stand trial on charges of child neglect, unlawful removal of a body and other counts.

A Section on 11/11/2018

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