• Dan Lindsay of the Rice-Hallick VFW Post in Henrietta, N.Y., said he was handing out red artificial poppies in front of the town's post office as the group has done for years as part of its annual fundraiser when he was asked to leave because the Postal Service now bans soliciting on its property.
• James Bradford, spokesman for the Bradley County, Tenn., sheriff's office, said he didn't know if a family would be compensated for damage caused by deputies and federal agents who broke through the front door of the wrong house while executing a warrant for a murder suspect.
• Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand's prime minister, revoked Transport Minister Phil Twyford's authority to oversee aviation safety in that country after Twyford violated safety rules by making a cellphone call on a plane where the doors were closed in preparation for takeoff, an act for which Twyford later apologized.
• Amber Kornak, 28, was collecting fur from trees as part of her "dream job" doing genetic research on grizzly bears in Montana's Cabinet Mountains, when she was mauled by a bear, suffering a fractured skull and other serious injuries, wildlife officials said.
• Sekou Kinebrew, a Philadelphia police captain, said investigators are seeking a road-rage suspect who was caught on security video using a sledgehammer to smash the windows and sides of an SUV and hitting a passenger who fell out as the SUV tried to drive off.
• Peter Lancia, school superintendent in Westbrook, Maine, said an anonymous donor gave the district $10,000 to put toward the $17,000 that families owe for student lunches.
• Eddie Curlin, 29, a black former Eastern Michigan University student who admitted to painting racially charged graffiti on campus, has been ordered to pay more than $2,000 in restitution and will serve two to five years in prison in an unrelated identity-theft case.
• Thomas Estes, a Massachusetts district judge who engaged in sexual acts with a social worker in his courthouse chambers, has been suspended and faces removal from the bench, the state's Supreme Judicial Court ruled.
• John Sellars, whose late brother, storm chaser Jim "Mad Dog" Sellars of Springfield, Mo., asked in his obituary for his ashes to be launched into a tornado, said his sibling could "look at the radar and just know where the storm was headed."
A Section on 05/25/2018