• Desmond Littlejohn, 33, of Norfolk, Va., at one time lauded for turning his life around after getting out of prison, was sentenced to nearly 16 more years in prison for robbing a gun dealer shortly after he appeared at a 2017 re-entry program event with state corrections officials and a congressman.
• Devan Gage, 25, told police that he acted "really just out of boredom" and thought it would be "adventurous" to rape an incapacitated woman in a police station, after an officer noticed him on security video and pulled him off the woman in the vestibule at the Fairbanks, Alaska, police station.
• Brandon Hanner, a 2nd lieutenant at MacDill Air Force Base near Tampa, Fla., said airmen used a front-end loader to scoop up and relocate a large alligator that had been lounging on a runway.
• Will Becket, the owner of a steakhouse in Manchester, England, said a server is being told to keep her "chin up," after learning that she mistakenly gave a bottle of Chateau le Pin Pomerol 2001 worth more than $5,000 to a customer who had ordered a $290 bottle of wine.
• Latoya Davis, a paraprofessional accused of using duct tape to bind the wrists of a 12-year-old boy in a special-education class at a school in Rochester, N.Y., was fired after she was charged with endangering a child, authorities said.
• Valerie Fullum, 29, of New Brighton, Pa., was charged with child endangerment after posing as the aunt of a friend's 12-year-old daughter and forcing the girl to get a birth-control implant in her arm without her mother's permission, prosecutors said.
• Bonnie Kimball, a former school lunch worker in Canaan, N.H., said she lost her job for quietly giving a meal to a student who passed through the line but had no money in his account on the same day that a rival company bidding for the school's food-service contract was observing in the cafeteria.
• William Carter, 52, was fired as an English instructor at Auburn University in Alabama after he was arrested in Virginia on a child-pornography count and is facing additional possession charges in Alabama, authorities said.
• Brian van Kleef, sheriff of Washington County, Ore., said an investigation is underway after a sanitation worker rescued a kitten that he found hanging from a garbage can by its back legs with its head and paws covered in hardened spray foam.
A Section on 05/17/2019