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Chloe Jones, 21, of Waynesburg, Pa., wanted for failure to appear on an assault charge, was arrested when sheriff's deputies tracked her down in West Virginia after she taunted deputies on social media by asking if they do "pick up or delivery."

Teresita McConney said she heard a bang while driving on an expressway in West Miami, Fla., and narrowly missed being struck by a metal rod that fell from a pickup and pierced her windshield just to the right of the rosary beads hanging from her rearview mirror.

Kevin Stitt, 47, Oklahoma's governor, bloodied his elbow using a rope swing to reach a landing pad but completed two of three obstacles on the American Ninja Warrior obstacle course set up outside the Capitol in Oklahoma City.

Yannick Nezet-Seguin, music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, says that Chopin's nocturnes are ideal for afternoon catnaps and are part of a "soothing" playlist he compiled that's piped into an animal shelter operated by the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Bo Cosens, 29, and Rachel Sharrock, 25, both of Uhrichsville, Ohio, who complained on social media about the noise from striking school employees picketing near their home, were arrested on charges that they made laxative-laced cookies that were delivered, but not eaten, to strikers.

Alora Wood, 10, of Underhill, Vt., said all creatures "deserve to have a perfect life" after her pet chicken, named Granite Heart, that uses a custom wheelchair because of a deformed foot, was the brunt of a joke on Saturday Night Live when an actor said the girl should "just eat the chicken."

Nicholas Parks, an inmate who was paralyzed when he injured his neck in a fall at a jail in Murfreesboro, Tenn., has sued Rutherford County officials for negligence, saying they ignored his history of seizures by ordering him to sleep on a top bunk.

Shannon Labrosse, 41, of Fort Wayne, Ind., who pleaded guilty to attempted murder for placing a plastic bag over the head of her ex-husband who has multiple sclerosis and beating him with a hammer, was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Jonathan Knapp, wearing a wetsuit, waded into the frigid James River near Springfield, Mo., and used a pole-mounted branch trimmer to rescue a barred owl that was dangling by its right wing over the river after it became entangled in fishing line.

A Section on 04/13/2019

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