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Donald Glover, the actor and rapper, is joining the Star Wars universe as a young Lando Calrissian, having been cast in Disney’s untitled spinoff film centered on the character Han Solo, played by Alden Ehrenreich.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who returned home to Mauritania last week after being held by the U.S. without charges for nearly 14 years at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, said he will not file complaints against those “who made me suffer injustice.”
Daniel Petrocelli, an attorney for Donald Trump, who faces a civil lawsuit over his defunct Trump University, filed a request in federal court to exclude from trial evidence any statements or tweets made by or about the GOP presidential nominee during the campaign.
Brian Schaeffer, spokesman for the Spokane, Wash., Fire Department, said a toddler who died in a house fire was found with his dog and teddy bear next to him, adding that authorities believe the dog tried to protect the boy.
Stephanie Jaegers, who checked into a hospital in Stockbridge, Ga., for abdominal pain that she and her husband, Michael, believed was related to kidney stones, was informed by doctors that she was 38 weeks pregnant, and delivered a healthy baby boy 30 minutes later.
Tiffanie Irwin, the pastor at Word of Life Christian Church near Utica, N.Y., pleaded guilty to manslaughter and assault for leading a 14-hour counseling session last year during which two brothers were severely beaten with an electrical cord, resulting in the death of Lucas Leonard, 19.
Judge Edward Sarkisian Jr. of California announced in court that a 41-year-old Fresno man has been sentenced to 1,503 years in prison after being found guilty of 186 felony counts of sexual assault in the repeated rape of his teenage daughter over a four-year period.
Chad Holland, 40, a former Pennsylvania corrections officer, was convicted of animal cruelty charges and sentenced to two days in jail in the death of his K-9 partner, Totti, which he had left unattended for 2½ hours in his car on a hot day.
Daniel Rushing filed a lawsuit against the city of Orlando, Fla., and a drug-testing kit company, citing negligence in his arrest last year on drug charges when police, backed by two positive roadside drug tests, suspected him of using crystal meth, before a lab test proved the flakes that police saw in his car were doughnut glaze.