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Morris Soard, who stopped so his wife could roll down her window to give a meal to a man holding a sign that said "Homeless and hungry," said he will fight a ticket issued by a Florence, Ky., police officer citing him for stopping on a limited access highway.

Will Connolly, 17, an Australian teenager known as "Egg Boy" for cracking an egg on the head of a far-right politician as he spoke out against Muslim immigration in Melbourne, said that while it wasn't "the right thing to do," he believes "this egg has united people."

Samantha Clark, a server at a tavern in Waterville, Maine, first thought a customer was complaining to the manager about a lost glass of wine but later learned the man and his wife, who asked to remain anonymous, left a $2,000 tip on a $48 bill to split among the staff.

Efren Mencia-Ramirez, 49, accused of spritzing body spray into his mouth to cover the smell of alcohol during a traffic stop on an interstate in Spartanburg County, S.C., faces charges that include driving under the influence, authorities said.

Son Tran, a passenger on a British Airways flight from London to Dusseldorf, Germany, wrote on social media that no one on board had "signed up for this mystery travel lottery" after the flight landed in Edinburgh, Scotland, by mistake.

Christopher Montilliano Jr., 21, of Kahului, Hawaii, was ordered not to drink Pepsi, his favorite soft drink, during his four years of probation by a judge who said he lied to officers by saying he was on his way to buy soft drinks when he was arrested for car theft.

Alzado Harris, 35, of Northwoods, Mo., who confessed to knocking over about 120 headstones at a Jewish cemetery near St. Louis in a case that drew the attention of Vice President Mike Pence, was sentenced to three years probation and ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution.

Jonathan Newton, manager of a Greenville County, S.C., Library System branch that held a Drag Queen Story Hour, has left his job after "doing his best to promote with all his heart the greater ideals he believes in," his wife, Natalie, posted on social media.

Rory Stewart, the British prisons minister, said three dead rats stuffed with drugs and mobile phones were thrown over the perimeter fence of a prison, which he said "shows the extraordinary lengths to which criminals will go to smuggle drugs into prison."

A Section on 03/26/2019

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