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Jimmy Carter, the 95-year-old former president whose health challenges have included cancer and hip replacement surgery, is feeling better and is looking forward to going home after being treated for a urinary tract infection at a hospital in Americus, Ga., a Carter Center spokesman said.

Manuelito Wheeler, director of Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, Ariz., is working with Pinkfong, a brand of the South Korea company SmartStudy, on a Navajo language version of the "Baby Shark" song, a widely popular tune about a family of sharks.

Bill Lee, governor of Tennessee, speaking at the Southern Baptist Convention's Nashville headquarters, said he declared a statewide day of prayer and fasting in October because if residents pray to end opioid abuse, stop school shootings and improve education, then God will answer those prayers.

Susan Roscillo, 70, and Robert Kellogg, 60, accused of having sex in front of a 12-year-old child outside a Clearwater, Fla., theater, each face a felony charge of lewd or lascivious behavior, according to Pinellas County jail records.

Kendra Coleman, a district judge in Oklahoma County, was admonished by the state's Supreme Court for failing to pay her taxes and for not paying more than 60 parking tickets, though the court decided against removing her from office.

Bruce Johnson, whose parents were in side-by-side beds at a Minnesota hospital, said "it's hard to imagine it's a coincidence" that Bob Johnson, 88, died just 33 hours after his wife of 68 years, 87-year-old Corrine, passed away.

Martique Vanderpool, 30, a former Fairmount Heights, Md., police officer accused of forcing a woman detained in a traffic stop to have sex with him at a police station, was charged with two counts of rape and engaging in a sex act with a person in custody.

Dianne Hensley, a justice of the peace in McLennan County, Texas, got a public warning from the state judicial ethics commission for refusing to perform same-sex marriages because of her religious beliefs while continuing to marry heterosexual couples.

Jacques Yves Duroseau, an active-duty U.S. Marine accused of smuggling weapons into Haiti, told investigators that he just wanted to help the country's military learn marksmanship and defeat "thugs" causing instability there, according to a criminal complaint.

A Section on 12/04/2019

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