• Nancy Weeks went back and forth from a pond, carrying water in a frying pan to keep a small wildfire sparked by an unattended campfire near Beddington, Maine, in check until fire crews arrived, state forest rangers said.
• Brennan Gilmore posted on social media a picture of his grandfather, John Middlemas of Willard, Mo., kneeling while wearing a veteran's cap, writing, "My grandpa is a 97 year-old WWII vet & Missouri farmer who wanted to join w/ those who #TakeaKnee: 'those kids have every right to protest,'" in reference to NFL players' actions during the national anthem.
• Abdullah Al Shehri, a Saudi artist who uses the name "Shaweesh," included an image of Yoda from the Star Wars films, seated in 1945 beside the future King Faisal as he signed the United Nations charter, in a doctored photo that appeared in textbooks handed out to high school students.
• Rachel Myrick of Fredericksburg, Va., said she felt a sharp pain in her foot as she and her family entered a steakhouse and, when she couldn't walk, looked down to find that she had been bitten by an 8-inch-long copperhead snake that had crawled into the restaurant.
• Wayne Brunet, 65, of Austin, Texas, who pleaded guilty to a drug distribution charge, was sentenced to three years in federal prison for smuggling more than 200 pounds of marijuana from Oregon to an airport in Llano, Texas.
• Paul LePage, the governor of Maine, unhappy that some elected sheriffs are refusing to detain illegal aliens for federal immigration officials, said he wants to invoke a provision of the state constitution to remove them from office.
• Meadow Bailey, a spokesman for Alaska's Transportation Department, suggested motorists try pressure washing, WD-40 lubricant or "a liberal dose of Vaseline" to remove from their vehicles the yellow paint that didn't dry as fast as expected when highway lines were repainted near Ketchikan.
• Enrique Moreno, 37, faces child endangerment and drug counts after police in Manchester, N.H., said he sat in his SUV's front passenger seat as his girlfriend's 11-year-old son drove with the youth's 3-year-old brother in the back seat.
• Gary Knight, a police sergeant in Oklahoma City, said a mother is being evaluated at a hospital after a church group spotted a car seat holding an abandoned baby boy, along with $5,500 in cash and a birth certificate, near the shoulder of Interstate 40.
A Section on 09/26/2017