• Stacy Koon, 67, the former Los Angeles police sergeant who went to prison for beating black motorist Rodney King in 1991, was sentenced to three years of probation and fined $390 after pleading no contest to driving under the influence.
• Track Palin, 29, an Army veteran and son of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, will spend a year in state custody, either in a halfway house or behind bars, after a judge in Anchorage ruled that allegations that he hit a woman in the head disqualified him from a veterans rehabilitation program.
• Hector Pesquera, Puerto Rico's public-safety secretary, said the U.S. territory is disbanding its mounted police unit to save $500,000 annually during a 12-year recession and will donate the unit's 30 horses to therapy groups.
• Jacob Sheriff, the Yazoo County, Miss., sheriff, said a 911 dispatcher was robbed at gunpoint by a man wearing a scarf over his face while she was on duty at the sheriff's office in Yazoo City.
• Sharon Stiteler, a National Park Service ranger, when asked why police in Gilbert, Minn., were getting calls about birds flying into objects and acting confused, said "drunk birds are totally a thing," when they eat alcohol-infused fruits, such as crab apples and berries, that fermented because of an early frost.
• Alexander Samor, 79, of Lebanon, N.H., was rescued and hospitalized after being stuck up to his neck in mud for 33 hours in a swamp near Haverhill, telling wildlife officers he became mired when he entered the muck to retrieve a duck he had shot.
• Caroline Hacker of Greensboro, N.C., was offered a free cleaning and waived parking fees after she posted a complaint on social media that the family car was infested by an ant colony when it was parked for three days at Charlotte Douglas International Airport.
• Anne Armstrong, the Compassion Party candidate for Rhode Island governor, and Alan Gordon, the party's candidate for attorney general, were arrested after police say they discovered 48 pounds of illegal marijuana in the couple's West Greenwich residence.
• Gilberto Baschiera, a former bank manager in Forni di Sopra, Italy, convicted of taking money from wealthy clients and transferring it to the accounts of poorer residents so they could qualify for loans, was sentenced to two years in prison but won't serve any jail time as a first-time offender.
A Section on 10/05/2018