Mike Pence, the vice president, along with others returning to Washington on Air Force Two from a campaign event in Gilford, N.H., were not injured after the plane struck a bird during takeoff and made an emergency landing at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport.
Shad White, Mississippi’s state auditor, said Macon clerk Yolanda Atkins has been arrested on embezzlement charges after investigators from White’s office found more than $2,000 missing in fines and fees paid to the court by taxpayers.
Patrick Lampi, the executive director of the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage, said a brown bear that broke into the zoo killed Ceasar, a 16-year-old alpaca, but no other animals were hurt, and wildlife officials killed the bear the next day.
Tika Ram Gurung of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, said the death of Ang Rita, a Sherpa who was the first to ever climb Mount Everest 10 times, is an “irreplaceable loss to not just Nepal but also for the entire mountaineering community.”
Benjamin Jenkins, 25, a Georgian described by the U.S. Justice Department as a “prolific sextornist,” was sentenced to 40 years in prison for coercing more than 100 girls between ages 13 and 16 to send him explicit photos and videos.
Christopher Aguanno, a Monroe County, Fla., sheriff’s deputy, said Margot Duke-Eddy, a pregnant woman, jumped off a boat “without hesitation” to pull her husband to safety after he was attacked by a shark during a family snorkeling trip in the Florida Keys.
Bruno Diaz, a biologist with the Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute in Galicia, Spain, said a pod of orca whales were likely playing when they damaged several yachts, prompting Spain’s transport ministry to temporarily ban sailing of smaller boats in the area.
Norbert Logsdon Jr., 67, of Orange Park, Fla., who was participating in a rally for President Donald Trump and got into an argument with a motorist, is charged with child abuse after he a stuck a flagpole into the car’s rear window and struck a 12-year-old girl in the face, according to an arrest report.
Abdul Kallon, a federal judge in Alabama, dismissed a lawsuit that sought to force the city of Decatur to abide by the results of an election in which a majority of voters had supported a city manager form of government, finding that the change would violate the Federal Voting Rights Act.