• Khafilu Oshodi, 31, of Round Lake, Ill., was accused of allowing his 11-year-old relative to drive to school in a stolen rental car, after school employees said they saw the girl pull the car up to the school's drop-off point and Oshodi move into the driver's seat.
• John Lowe, 36, who threatened a store clerk, tried but failed to get a cash register open, fled with 10 packs of cigarettes from a gas station in Wicomico County, Md., and later in the day tried to trade the cigarettes for gas, was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
• Perry Kirka, owner of Paylow Pharmacy in Georgia, was sentenced to five years of probation for dispensing medications to patients at Miracle One Care Center Inc., which operated unlicensed personal care homes, and sought Medicaid reimbursement without ensuring that the patients received the prescriptions.
• Shayla Bell Moriarty, vice president of the Toledo Zoo in Ohio, said a volunteer suffered a detached thumb when an orangutan reached through a gap in a barrier, grabbed the volunteer's thumb, pulled her arm through the gap and bit her forearm at feeding time.
• Wilson Menashi, 84, known as the "octopus whisperer" after spending 7,800 hours volunteering at the New England Aquarium in Boston, said he's had to explain to his wife that the hickeys on his neck and arm are from the creatures, which greet him by latching their suction cups onto him.
• Christopher Cleary, 27, was arrested after police in Provo, Utah, said he made several threatening posts on Facebook, including one about "killing as many girls as I see" the same weekend that Women's Marches were held around the U.S.
• Margaret Zollo, head of the Riverdale-Porterdale Cemetery Foundation, said the group hopes to turn an abandoned farmers market into a park connecting two historic cemeteries, one for black people and one for white, in Columbus, Ga., adding that the connection would show "we're all Columbusites."
• Sonny Collins, a spokesman for the South Carolina Highway Patrol, said a bus driver safely evacuated all 34 children aboard the bus that caught fire after it was rear-ended by a car while stopped at a rail crossing.
• Craig Ralston, 40, an ex-soldier, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for sexually abusing a 5-year-old and an 18-year-old while he was stationed at Fort Leonard Wood in St. Robert, Mo.
A Section on 01/23/2019