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Officer uses patrol car to stop sleepy wrong-way driver

WYOMING (AP) — An officer is being credited for using his patrol car to stop a sleepy driver who was going the wrong way on a highway in western Michigan.

The police department in Wyoming says Officer Tony Jacob was driving on U.S. 131 early Thursday when he saw headlights coming at him. The wrong-way vehicle then went past him.

Jacob quickly turned around. Dashcam video shows him catching up to the vehicle, which police say was going roughly 50 to 60 mph.

Jacob determined the driver appeared to be sleeping, so he nudged the other vehicle until it spun and stopped. The driver reported he hadn't slept for 40 hours.

Lt. Eric Wiler says without Jacob's quick actions, the wrong-way vehicle "most certainly would have hit another vehicle head-on."
 

Couple remarry after discovering illegal marriage

STANTON (AP) — A Michigan couple learned that they broke the law when they wed two years ago, so they asked a judge to void the illegal marriage and then to do it all over again.

The Daily News of Greenville reports that 55-year-olds Philip Timmer and Trisha Stewart were remarried last week at the Montcalm County Courthouse, and this time it was valid under Michigan law.

Timmer and Stewart were both divorced with children from previous marriages when they met in 2010. They married in 2016. But then Stewart learned that her divorce hadn't been properly finalized, meaning she was legally still married to her ex-husband.

Stewart settled her divorce, had her illegal marriage to Timmer dissolved this past summer and then asked the same judge to remarry them.


ACLU sues library over Drag Queen Story Hour ban

The ACLU of Louisiana has sued a public library to end its ban on a program in which men in drag were to read to children.

A man and woman who want to organize a similar event at the Lafayette Public Library say reserving a meeting room requires signing a form saying they won't use the library for such purposes.

ACLU officials call it an unconstitutional gag order on patrons of the library about 120 miles  west of New Orleans.

The library began using the form after it was sued to stop plans for the story hour by people claiming “transgenderism” is a religion.


Temporary gun seizures, bump stock ban gain approval

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington, D.C., city council has passed a bill allowing law enforcement to temporarily seize guns from people deemed to be a danger to themselves or others.

The Washington Post reports the council passed the bill on Dec.. 18 and enacted it as emergency legislation, allowing it to take effect immediately and last 90 days. 
It still needs to be signed by Mayor Muriel E. Bowser and undergo review.
 
The D.C. bill would allow guns to be removed for 10 days, after which a judge would decide if there's probable cause to remove the firearms for a year.

The bill also includes a bump stock ban and increases penalties for possessing magazine clips that hold over 10 rounds of ammunition.

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