• Nancy Crampton Brophy, 68, a self-published romance writer in Oregon who once penned an essay titled "How to Murder Your Husband," was charged with murder in the shooting of Daniel Brophy, her husband of 27 years.
• Patricia Tillis, a nurse in Tennessee, saw her medical license suspended after the state Board of Nursing found that she had used a doctor's prescription pad to write herself prescriptions for thousands of pills of opioids and muscle relaxers over three years.
• Mario Salinas, 27, a southeast Texas man, faces multiple charges including cruelty to a nonlivestock animal and terroristic threat to a family member after he reportedly threatened to kill his girlfriend, fatally stabbed the family cat and left unguarded in his home a rifle that was fired by his 4-year-old son, according to police.
• Joel Bane, 39, pleaded guilty to interference with a flight crew after prosecutors said he threatened flight attendants, disobeyed the captain's orders and assaulted police officers on a Southwest Airlines flight from Chicago to New Orleans.
• Atulkumar Patel, owner of a smoke shop in Jasper, Ga., was arrested on charges of possessing a controlled substance with intent to distribute after six people got sick during a drug search, including a detective who opened a container, began to feel dizzy and threw up.
• Gregory Wilson, 32, and his girlfriend Lynda Michel, 42, were charged with child neglect and other counts after authorities in Minnesota said the couple dropped off Wilson's 5-year-old son in the woods as punishment for wetting himself, and that multiple bruises were found on the boy's body.
• Timothy Hamilton, 31, pleaded guilty in Tulsa to promoting false investment opportunities for various companies that claimed to produce and market sportswear and nutritional supplements in a scheme that defrauded investors of more than $875,000.
• Glenn Funk, district attorney in Davidson County, Tenn., said Ben Selecman, 28, a prosecutor and son-in-law of country music star Alan Jackson, died after suffering traumatic head injuries when he slipped at a boat dock in Jupiter, Fla.
• Robert Ray, 60, of Donaldsonville, La., was booked on hate-crimes charges after police said he approached a 19-year-old woman in a store and told her to "go back to Mexico," then attacked her parents when they intervened.
A Section on 09/16/2018