• Tony Alsup, 51, a trucker from Greenback, Tenn., driving an old school bus emblazoned with the words "EMERGENCY ANIMAL RESCUE SHELTER," rescued 53 dogs and 11 cats from South Carolina shelters in the path of tropical storm Florence, taking them to a private shelter in Alabama.
• Ebony Cooper, 28, and Leah Pressley, 26, both of Savannah, Ga., were arrested on felony drug charges after undercover agents bought edible marijuana products that were being openly sold at an event held at a church for entrepreneurs to set up booths to sell their goods.
• Diane Neal, a political novice and actress who portrayed an assistant district attorney on TV's Law and Order: SVU, won a court fight to appear on the ballot as an independent candidate in a bid for New York's 19th Congressional District seat.
• Ruthie Kester of Latrobe, Pa., was watching people ride a camel at a Shrine Circus being held at a Pittsburgh arena when, she said, she saw a child throw a shovel at its feet, startling the camel, which began bucking, injuring six children and an adult.
• John Dingell, 92, the former Michigan congressman who is the longest-serving member of the House or Senate in U.S. history, is "alert and in good spirits, cracking jokes as usual" in a Detroit-area hospital after suffering a heart attack, his wife, U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, said.
• Cameron Weekly, 9, of Perryville, Mo., says he now knows why candy isn't allowed on the bus, after his driver, Sandy Sauer, used the Heimlich maneuver to dislodge a piece of hard candy that got stuck in Cameron's airway as he got on the bus to go to school.
• Mike Whittle, a Morgan County, Ala., sheriff's deputy, was suspended three days without pay for not handling weapons safely after he shot another deputy in the jaw with a nonlethal baton round, typically a bean bag, as the two were storing firearms.
• Pete Piringer, an emergency services spokesman in Montgomery County, Md., said a man and a woman were found wet but unhurt after a driving lesson went awry, resulting in their car jumping a curb, crashing through a fence and landing in a community swimming pool.
• Stacey Honowitz, 56, a veteran prosecutor in Broward County, Fla., is facing misdemeanor theft charges after police said she was caught on security video hiding three beauty products worth about $43 in her purse at a grocery store.
A Section on 09/18/2018