• Braylen Carwell, 5, who ate just a couple of pieces of candy when he arrived home from trick-or-treating in Galion, Ohio, began shaking and lost control of his left arm and fingers and later tested positive for methamphetamine, prompting police to seize his Halloween haul as evidence.
• Gordon Stokes, 43, of Chattanooga, Tenn., lost his paramedic license after being accused of intentionally hurting patients, including drilling into a patient's bone without anesthesia, and then bragging about it online said he was trying to teach others how to deal with belligerent patients.
• Bryan Carroll, co-owner of a bar in Picayune, Miss., said a man who wasn't a regular customer was asked to leave after showing up for a Halloween party and costume contest wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood and robe.
• Lorrainda Smith and her husband, Wilmer Capps, got a surprise baby shower and a year's supply of diapers at the Walmart store in Panama City, Fla., where they hunkered down in the parking lot with their newborn son on his first night out of the hospital after Hurricane Michael damaged their home.
• Stacie Moody, director of the "Get Your Rear in Gear" event in Kansas City, Mo., which raises awareness about colorectal cancer, called national publicity about the theft of a 10-foot-tall pink inflatable colon "kind of like the colon cancer lottery" after the device was found stashed in a vacant house.
• Detavis Madison, 24, was arrested in Snellville, Ga., after he tried to hide his 3-month-old daughter during a traffic stop from officers, who found the infant on the drivers' side floorboard lying on top of a stolen handgun, police said.
• David Beth, sheriff of Kenosha, Wis., said the pilot of an ultralight seaplane that crashed into a lake swam to shore and hitched a ride home without contacting the authorities about the wreck because he didn't think it was a big deal.
• Henry Asomani, 33, a Ghana native who lives in Virginia, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Kansas City, Mo., on wire fraud and other charges in a "romance fraud" scheme that swindled 13 women out of more than $5 million, prosecutors said.
• Clayton Garrett, a California Fish and Wildlife lieutenant, said a drone equipped with thermal imaging cameras was used to track down a year-old mountain lion in a San Francisco Bay suburb that was tranquilized and relocated to a wilderness area.
A Section on 10/31/2018