• Denver Riggleman, a Virginia Republican who is running for Congress, is rejecting accusations that he is a "devotee of Bigfoot erotica," after his opponent, Democrat Leslie Cockburn, posted pictures on social media from Riggleman's Instagram account showing suggestive drawings of Bigfoot.
• Bryce Dudal, 18, who had just delivered a pizza to a home in suburban Detroit, asked if he could play a baby grand piano he spotted in the foyer and surprised his customers by playing the third movement of Beethoven's "Moonlight" sonata, which he described as a "flashy, fast, amazing piece."
• Daniel Petruzzelli, 19, of Manchester, N.H., was hospitalized after spending nearly 18 hours in a car that had careened off a road and into dense vegetation, killing the driver and another passenger, before it was spotted by a passer-by, police said.
• Carolyn Fennell, spokesman for Florida's Orlando International Airport, said security ordered 333 passengers and 12 crew members off a Norwegian Airlines flight after someone made a comment about a bomb on board when three people got into a fight over seating.
• Jerry Dove, mayor of Southport, N.C., suspended city police operations after two officers, Police Chief Gary Smith and Lt. Mike Simmons, were accused of "habitually" working at a trucking company when they were supposed to be on duty.
• Steven Snell, 28, was arrested after police in Rehoboth Beach, Del., said he kidnapped an 82-year-old man and his 81-year-old wife, making them withdraw money from an ATM before driving off with the man in his car trunk, where he was later found safe.
• Jeffrey Day, 33, of Centreville, Miss., a sergeant at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, was accused of smuggling drugs into the prison after he was caught with 5 ounces of marijuana and nearly 4 grams of synthetic pot, deputies said.
• Stephen McCrary, 57, of Raytown, Mo., who has been in prison, on parole or on probation for 34 of the past 39 years, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for using a plastic gun to steal $3,815 from a Kansas City credit union, prosecutors said.
• Michael Lorello of Westerly, R.I., posted on social media video of a 6-foot-long great white shark that he pulled up in his nets while fishing nearly a mile off the Rhode Island coast, as well as a second video of the shark being released alive back into the Atlantic Ocean.
A Section on 07/31/2018