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• Position: Baking soda and cocaine testing, golf courses in Brazil, hoarding of toys in Venezuela

Gale Griffin and Wendell Harvey spent two and a half months in an Arkansas jail after drug field tests falsely showed that the baking soda they had in the truck they were driving was cocaine. The duo was eventually freed after a public defender insisted on an actual lab test. But they say their truck was damaged when they got it back and that the arrest cost them their security clearance, which means they can no longer do their job transporting explosives for the government.

Just three months after the Rio Olympics ended, the $19 million golf course built for the games is rarely used, and the company responsible for its upkeep has not been paid by the government for two months. Few Brazilians golf, but organizers of the event said building the facilities could help make the game more popular.

Venezuelan soldiers raided two warehouses, seized nearly 4 million toys, and arrested two executives who are accused of hoarding the toys to sell them at higher prices at Christmas.

The good news is that the Tomah, Wisconsin, Veterans Affairs Medical Center is offering free screenings for hepatitis and HIV to 592 veterans. The bad news is that it's doing this because a V.A. dentist did not properly clean equipment between patients.

The Illinois Human Rights Commission has upheld an $80,000 judgment against the Christian owners of Timber Creek Bed & Breakfast for refusing to host a same-sex marriage celebration on their property.

A student at California's Orange Coast College recorded psychology professor Olga Perez Stable Cox going on a tirade during a recent class on human sexuality, deeming the election of Donald Trump "an assault." Now, the union that represents the professor is warning of legal action against the student.

In her will, Dolores Hope directed that the home she shared for many...