LOS ANGELES
Reynolds, Fisher laid to rest
Carrie Fisher, who was laid to rest alongside her mother Debbie Reynolds on Friday, was adored by family, friends and fans for her gallows humor and frank talk about her struggles with mental illness. What better home for her ashes then, her brother Todd Fisher and daughter Billie Lourd decided, than an urn in the shape of an outsized anti-depressant? “Carrie’s favorite possession was a giant Prozac pill that she bought many years ago,” Todd Fisher said Friday as he left the private joint funeral at Forest Lawn — Hollywood Hills for his mother and sister. “She loved it, and it was in her house, and Billie and I felt it was where she’d want to be,” he said.
PHILADELPHIA
Deliveryman gets $4.4 million
A pizza deliveryman injured when plainclothes police searching for a gunman fired 14 times at his car has negotiated a $4.4 million settlement with the city of Philadelphia. A lawyer for Philippe Holland says the 23-year-old suffers from a seizure disorder and chronic pain after being shot in the head, face and leg in 2014. Thomas Kline says the officers said they thought Holland was the gunman involved in a shooting blocks away. He says Holland thought they were about to rob him and put his car in reverse as he tried to flee. The two officers remain on desk duty.
SACRAMENTO, Calif.
Inmate gets surgery funded
A convicted killer, 57, serving a life sentence in California became the first U.S. inmate to receive state-funded sex-reassignment surgery, the prisoner’s attorneys confirmed Friday to the Associated Press. California prison officials agreed in August 2015 to pay for the surgery for Shiloh Heavenly Quine, who was convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping and robbery for ransom and has no possibility of parole. Quine’s case led the state to become the first to set standards that will allow other transgender to inmates apply to receive state-funded sex-reassignment surgery.
WASHINGTON
Biden leaves his mark
Vice President Joe Biden signed his desk drawer at his ceremonial office to mark the final days of the Obama administration. Biden joined his wife, Jill Biden, and staff members at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building for the ceremony. Bearing a black Sharpie, the vice president joked the signing “is to prove I was vice president.”
Compiled from wire reports