• King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain visited San Antonio to celebrate the Texas city's founding as a Spanish mission in 1718, touring historic sites and attending a ceremony with the city's mayor, Ron Nirenberg.
• Selahattin Demirtas, an opposition presidential candidate in Turkey, was allowed to record a speech for state TV because of a law requiring that every candidate get airtime, despite having been jailed on charges of alleged terrorism for 20 months after a crackdown on his Pro-Kurdish party.
• DeDe Phillips, 46, of Hart County, Ga., is being treated for rabies, a broken finger, and bite and claw wounds after she was attacked in her yard by a rabid bobcat, which she managed to grab by the throat and eventually strangle.
• Richard Hogue, 32, and Jessica Pickell, 33, were charged with grand larceny after 87 metal vases were stolen off headstones in Lakeview Cemetery, with Greenville, Miss., police saying some of the vases were shredded and sold for scrap but about 70 were recovered.
• Sarah Goodman, facing a $132,000 bill from an insurance company, disputed that her children were unsupervised or that she was negligent after her 5-year-old son accidentally knocked over a sculpture at a community center in Overland Park, Kan., claiming instead that the sculpture was unprotected.
• Christopher Chope, a Conservative Party lawmaker in Britain's Parliament who singlehandedly blocked a proposal that would have made taking "upskirting" photos illegal, defended his actions after being criticized by backers of the plan by saying he objected to the way it was introduced, not its content.
• Paul Alexander, who was one of 10,000 mostly Jewish children evacuated from Nazi Germany beginning in 1938 on Kindertransport trains, set off from Berlin on a memorial bike ride tracing the trains' route to London, along with his son, grandson and 39 other people.
• Yumica Thompson questioned why officials at her son's Washington, D.C. charter school summoned police after her son and another boy shouted to each other between classes that they would "shoot" after school, with the boys' parents saying they were talking about playing basketball.
• John Rowland, a former Connecticut governor who finished his second federal prison term last month, has started work as a fundraiser for Prison Fellowship, a Christian group that helps convicts return to their communities.
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