• Tierra Walker was fired from her job as an elementary school teacher in Goose Creek, S.C., after security video showed her dragging a misbehaving 11-year-old student to the edge of her classroom and kicking him out of way to shut the door, a school spokesman said.
• Olof Jonsson described it as a "violent attack" at a concert in Malmo, Sweden, when a couple began punching another patron who had thrown the woman's bag of candy to the floor because she rustled it during the early movements of Gustav Mahler's 5th Symphony.
• Mark Williams, a firefighter in West Springfield, Va., cut a hole in a basement ceiling to retrieve a small dog that had become trapped in a heating duct when it crawled into a home's HVAC system, with his department on social media calling the rescue a "happy and pawsitive outcome fur all!"
• Alejandro Goez, a New Jersey state trooper, said hot coals dumped by tailgaters in the parking lot at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford are blamed for damage to seven vehicles during Sunday's game between the New York Jets and Minnesota Vikings.
• David Hagan, curator of the Indianapolis Zoo, said staff and lion experts are baffled why Zuri, the zoo's 12-year-old lioness, attacked and killed her mate, Nyack, the zoo's "very vocal" 10-year-old male African lion, who had sired her three cubs.
• Robert Leach, 33, convicted of sexually abusing seventh- and eighth-grade girls between 2010 and 2013 while working as a charter-school math teacher in Washington, D.C., was sentenced to nearly 12 years in prison, prosecutors said.
• Kevin Sanderlin, owner of Hermann Trolley, said it was the first accident involving one of his trolleys in nine years after a 55-year-old woman died and nine people were hurt when a trolley on a winery tour collided with a turning car near Hermann, Mo.
• Joel Welch, 24, was jailed on burglary charges after being found hiding in a bathroom shower by Jones County, Miss., sheriff's deputies called to a home in Calhoun after the home's owners reported that their home security system had notified them of an intruder.
• Chuck Hawley of Silverton, Ore., has named his new kitten "Sticky" after he spotted it in the middle of a busy road where it had been glued down by its paws, neck and tail, saying he watched several vehicles pass over it before he was able to rescue it.
A Section on 10/23/2018