• Jennifer Talbot, 43, was detained by Philippine immigration officials after security agents at Manila's airport opened the American's carry-on bag to find a 6-day-old infant for which Talbot lacked documentation to prove she was related to the child.
• Jessica Eldridge of Jacksonville, Fla., called it a "tight fit" after her husband, Patrick, who was worried that Hurricane Dorian would "blow away" their tiny Smart car, which is about 8 feet long and 5 feet wide, drove the car through some double doors at their house and parked it in the kitchen.
• Richard McEwan, 26, of Milford, N.J., was found shoeless after breaking into singer Taylor Swift's beachfront mansion in Westerly, R.I., and said he was taught it was polite to take his shoes off when entering someone's home, police said.
• Roberto Viera-Aybar, 26, a murder suspect who because of a clerical error was mistakenly released from jail in Davidson County, Tenn., surrendered to Nashville police after nearly a week of freedom on the advice and arrangement of his attorney.
• Izaebela Kolano, 49, of Nutley, N.J., who asked to look at a $28,000 diamond ring at a Costco store, is accused of stealing it after she handed back to the clerk a $2,000 ring that she had stolen from a different Costco, authorities said.
• Jim Davis, an Ontario, Canada, provincial police constable, said a 62-year-old Minnesota woman staying on a remote island in a lake straddling the Minnesota-Ontario border was killed by a black bear in what a wildlife biologist described as a predatory attack that is "beyond extremely rare."
• Shane Hall, 31, of Woonsocket, R.I., faces assault and animal-cruelty charges after being accused of putting in a freezer a wet kitten that had knocked over a trash bin and then using a plastic pellet gun to shoot a friend when she tried to rescue the cat, police said.
• Andrew Smith, 19, of Normal, Ill., a math major at the University of Illinois' Urbana campus, faces a felony hate crime charge after prosecutors say he found some rope in a residence hall and tied a noose, which he left in an elevator.
• Brant Fisher, an Indiana aquatic biologist, said about 2,800 freshwater mussels likely would have died if it hadn't been for volunteers moving them by hand downstream after a river dam demolished near Muncie left them stranded without water.
A Section on 09/05/2019