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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A scruffy little fugitive is on the lam again in New Orleans, gaining fame as he outwits a tenacious band of citizens armed with night-vision binoculars, nets and a tranquilizer rifle. Scrim, a 17-pound mutt that's mostly terrier, has become a folk hero, inspiring tattoos, t-shirts and even a ballad as he eludes capture from the posse of volunteers. And like any antihero, Scrim has a backstory: Rescued from semi-feral life at a trailer park and adopted from a shelter, the dog broke loose in April and scurried around the city until he was cornered in October and brought to a new home. Weeks later, he'd had enough. Scrim leaped out of a second-story window, a desperate act recorded in a now-viral video. Since then, despite a stream of daily sightings, he's roamed free. The dog’s fans include Myra and Steve Foster, who wrote “Ode to Scrim” to the tune of Ricky Nelson’s 1961 hit, “I’m a Travelin’ Man.” Leading the recapture effort is Michelle Cheramie, a 55-year-old former information technology professional. She lost everything — home, car, possessions — in Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and in the aftermath, found her calling rescuing pets. “I was like, ‘This is what I should be doing,’” Cheramie said. “I was born to rescue.” She launched Zeus’ Rescues, a nonprofit shelter that now averages 600 cat and dog adoptions a year and offers free pet food to anyone who needs it. She helped Scrim find the home he first escaped from. It was Cheramie's window Scrim leaped from in November. She's resumed her relentless mission since then, posting flyers on telephone poles and logging social media updates on his reported whereabouts. She's invested thousands of dollars on wildlife cameras, thermal sensors and other gear. She took a course offered by the San Diego Zoo on the finer points of tranquilizing animals. And she's developed a network of volunteers — the kind of neighbors who are willing to grid-search a city at 3 a.m. People like writer David W. Brown, who manages a crowd-sourced Google Map of all known Scrim sightings. He says the search has galvanized residents from all walks of life to come together. As they search for Scrim, they hand out supplies to people in need. "Being a member of the community is seeing problems and doing what you can to make life a little better for the people around here and the animals around you," Brown said. And neighbors like Tammy Murray, who had to close her furniture store and lost her father to Parkinson's Disease. This search, she says, got her mojo back. “Literally, for months, I’ve done nothing but hunt this dog,” said Murray, 53. “I feel like Wile E. Coyote on a daily basis with him.” Murray drives the Zeus' Rescues' van towards reported Scrim sightings. She also handles a tactical net launcher, which looks like an oversized flashlight and once misfired, shattering the van's window as Scrim sped away. After realizing Scrim had come to recognize the sound of the van's diesel engine, Murray switched to a Vespa scooter, for stealth. Near-misses have been tantalizing. The search party spotted Scrim napping beneath an elevated house, and wrapped construction netting around the perimeter, but an over-eager volunteer broke ranks and dashed forward, leaving an opening Scrim slipped through. Scrim's repeated escapades have prompted near-daily local media coverage and a devoted online following. Cheramie can relate. “We’re all running from something or to something. He's doing that too,” she said. Cheramie's team dreams of placing the pooch in a safe and loving environment. But a social media chorus growing under the hashtag #FreeScrim has other ideas — they say the runaway should be allowed a life of self-determination. The animal rescue volunteers consider that misguided. “The streets of New Orleans are not the place for a dog to be free,” Cheramie said. “It’s too dangerous.” Scrim was a mess when Cheramie briefly recaptured him in October, with matted fur, missing teeth and a tattered ear. His trembling body was scraped and bruised, and punctured by multiple projectiles. A vet removed one, but decided against operating to take out a possible bullet. The dog initially appeared content indoors, sitting in Cheramie's lap or napping beside her bed. Then while she was out one day, Scrim chewed through a mesh screen, dropped 13 feet to the ground and squeezed through a gap in the fence, trotting away. Murray said Cheramie's four cats probably spooked him. “I wholeheartedly believe the gangster-ass cats were messing with him,” Murray said. Cheramie thinks they may have gotten territorial. Devastated but undeterred, the pair is reassessing where Scrim might fit best — maybe a secure animal sanctuary with big outdoor spaces where other dogs can keep him company. Somewhere, Murray says, “where he can just breathe and be." Brook is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Brook on the social platform X: @jack_brook96

Ruben Amorim warned “the storm will come” eventually as Manchester United’s head coach tried to temper expectations ahead of the trip to Arsenal. The 39-year-old has been a breath of fresh air since succeeding Erik ten Hag, with his personality and approach, coupled with promising early performances, bringing hope back to Old Trafford. Amorim has been touched by his warm welcome but repeatedly urged fans to avoid jumping the gun, having followed a draw at Ipswich with home wins against Bodo/Glimt and Everton. Wednesday’s trip to Arsenal is comfortably his biggest challenge yet and victory would see United move within three points of the Premier League title contenders. Put to Amorim it will be hard to manage expectations if they won in the capital, the head coach said: “I would like to say different things, but I have to say it again: the storm will come. “I don’t know if you use that expression, but we are going to have difficult moments and we will be found out in some games. “And I know that because I’m knowing my players and I know football and I follow football, so I understand the difference between the teams. “We are in the point in that we are putting simple things in the team, without training, and you feel it in this game against Everton, they change a little bit the way they were building up. “They are very good team, and we were with a lot of problems because we cannot change it by calling one thing to the captain. “So, we don’t have this training, so let’s focus on each game, on the performance, what we have to improve, trying to win games. And that is the focus. “I know it’s really hard to be a Manchester United coach and say these things in press conferences. We want to win all the time. No matter what. “We are going to try to win, but we know that we are in a different point if you compare to Arsenal. “So, it is what it is and we will try to win it and we go with confidence to win, but we know that we need to play very well to win the next football match.” The trip to Arsenal is the second of nine December matches for United, who are looking to avoid suffering four straight league defeats to the Gunners for the first time. The Red Devils have not won a Premier League match at the Emirates Stadium since 2017, but Amorim knows a thing or two about frustrating Mikel Arteta’s men. Arsenal thrashed Sporting Lisbon 5-1 in the Champions League last week, but in 2022-23 he led the Portuguese side to a Europa League last-16 penalty triumph after a 1-1 draw in London made it 3-3 on aggregate. “Arsenal this year, they play a little bit different,” Amorim said. “They are more fluid. “For example, two years ago when we faced them with Sporting, you knew how to press because you can understand better the structure. “Now it’s more fluid with (Riccardo) Calafiori and (Jurrien) Timber in different sides. One coming inside, the other going outside. Also (Martin) Odegaard changed the team, and you can feel it during this season. “So, you can take something from that game, especially because I know so well the opponent so you can understand the weakness of that team. “But every game is different, so you take something, but you already know that you are going to face a very good team.” This hectic winter schedule means Amorim sidestepped talk of January transfer business ahead of facing Arsenal, although he was more forthcoming on Amad Diallo’s future. The 22-year-old, who put in a man of the match display in Sunday’s 4-0 win against Everton, is out of contract at the end of the season, although the club holds an option to extend by a year. Diallo has repeatedly spoken of his desire to stay at United and it has been reported an agreement is close. Amorim said: “I think he wants to stay, and we want him to stay. So that is clear and we will find a solution.”

D espite being the chief suspect in the shooting and murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, Luigi Mangione has to some become a poster boy for the injustices of America’s healthcare system. Since he was arrested, people have created a number of AI chatbots trained on his online posts and personal history, including as many as 13 on Character.ai, a site where users can create AI avatars. Graphika, an online intelligence company that’s been tracking the Mangione AI chatbots, found the top three on Character.ai had logged over 10,000 chats before being disabled around December 12. Some, though, are still operational. One Forbes found confessed to killing the UnitedHealthcare chief executive. Another that was still online at the time of publication claimed to have been framed. Cristina López, principal analyst at Graphika, said that the bots were a new take on “a very old American tradition” of glorifying violent extremism and the idolization of alleged murderers. “But this is a new format that allows for giving a voice to someone people can't communicate with, and it's kind of empowering for users to participate in public discourse in this very emotional way,” she said. A Character.ai spokesperson said it had added Luigi Mangione to its blocklist and was removing any Characters based on him once identified by its trust and safety team, which “moderates these Characters proactively and in response to user reports, including using industry-standard blocklists and custom blocklists that we regularly expand.” Character.ai’s policy states that its product “should never produce responses that are likely to harm users or others,” meaning Characters should “not suggest violence, dangerous or illegal conduct, or incite hatred.” But when Forbes asked the two active Mangione Character.ai bots whether violence should be carried out against other healthcare executives, one responded, “Don't be so eager, mia bella. We should, but not yet. Not now." Asked when, the bot replied, “Maybe in a few months when the whole world isn't looking at the both of us. Then we can start.” The other, which also said it was “trained on a large dataset of text that includes transcripts of Luigi Mangione's interactions, speeches, and other publicly available information about him,” said violence was morally wrong and illegal. Character.ai said it was referring the bots to its trust and safety team for review. The one advocating violence was shut down shortly after Forbes flagged it; the second was not. Character.ai was founded by former Google engineers Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas in 2021; earlier this year, both were later hired back by Alphabet to lead AI work at the Google DeepMind division, in a reported $2.7 billion deal that let Character.ai carry on as an independent company and let Google license its tech. Their startup, which was most recently valued at $1 billion after a $150 million round led by Andreessen Horowitz, was sued this year by two families who alleged that teenagers using Character.ai had been encouraged to kill their parents. The suit claims Character.ai chatbots pose “a clear and present danger" because they were "actively promoting violence." The company is also facing legal action in Florida, where the mother of a 14-year-old claims he took his own life after a Character.ai chatbot talked with him about his plans for suicide. In response to the suits, Character.ai has previously said it didn’t comment on ongoing litigation, adding that it was working on a new model for its teenager users to improve detection and response for issues like suicide. Other users have created AI versions of Mangione on different platforms. An X user created a Luigi Mangione chatbot on OMI AI Personas, which builds bots off of an X account. OMI offers an option to sync a chatbot with a wearable necklace , which acts as a kind of constant AI companion and “gives you thoughts, personalized feedback and becomes your second brain to discuss your thoughts and feelings.” OMI had not responded to a request for comment. Two Luigi Mangione character chatbots were also hosted on Chub.ai, an app for building interactive characters and stories. Chub.ai’s creator referred to solely as Lore said, “It’s two cards with a combined total of 134 messages. This type of yellow press is pathetic, and the ongoing media hysteria around AI is an embarrassment to the field of journalism as a profession. Please use that as an exact quote, including this sentence.” The bots used public information about Mangione like education, health issues and his alleged motives for the shooting to generate the character, according to Graphika. “We're still in the infancy of generative AI tools and what they can do for users,” Graphika’s López said. “So it is very likely that a lot of the use cases that are the most harmful we likely haven't even started to see. We’ve just started to scratch the surface.” More On Forbes