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Netanyahu gets yearbook from his Pennsylvania high school

CHELTENHAM, Pa.

Some suburban Philadelphia high-school alumni say they’ve sent a 1960s yearbook to one of their most-famous classmates, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Philadelphia Daily News reports classmates from Cheltenham High School’s Class of 1973 sent Netanyahu his 1967 yearbook.

Netanyahu left school around the time of the Six-Day War in June 1967 and joined the Israel Defense Forces, causing him to miss out on graduation and his yearbook.

None of the four classmates knew Netanyahu.

But they sent him a note congratulating him on winning his fourth term.

They say Netanyahu responded with a personal card, thanking them and saying the yearbook brought back fond memories.

The yearbook says Netanyahu was on the debate and soccer teams and the chess club while at Cheltenham.

Vandalism not a likely factor in headstones found along road

GUNTERSVILLE, Ala.

Authorities in Marshall County say vandalism most likely was not a factor in several discarded headstones being found beside a road earlier this week.

District 4 Commissioner Jesse Swords tells WHNT-TV he and others picked up the headstones after they were reported Monday and held them for safekeeping.

Heath Thomas of the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office says authorities traced names on the headstones to burial plots in DeKalb, Marshall and Cherokee counties and found that they had been replaced with new ones.

Thomas says the headstones were found on a sharp curve beside a road and likely fell off a truck being driven by a hauling company.

Video shows plane making emergency landing on highway

STAFFORD TOWNSHIP, N.J.

Police have released a video of a small plane carrying students from a skydiving school making an emergency landing on a New Jersey highway.

No one aboard the single-engine plane or on the ground was injured when the plane touched down Sunday morning in Stafford Township on Route 72, one of the main roads between Philadelphia and the Jersey shore.

The video shows the plane coasting over traffic before the pilot puts it down in the grass median.

Authorities say the plane apparently lost power shortly after taking off. It’s unknown what caused the problem.

Besides the pilot, three skydiving students and an instructor were aboard the plane.

Associated Press