In the news
Jeff Spencer, a Maine Warden Service pilot, escaped injury when the ski landing gear of his plane broke through thin ice after he landed on Eagle Lake, partially submerging the plane with only its wings and tail keeping it from sinking.
Mazen Dayem, 36, a New York City man who says he has a phobia about the Tasmanian Devil, accused his father-in-law, Yunes Doleh, of violating a restraining order by terrorizing him at a funeral by snarling like the cartoon character and waving a toupee at him.
Cho Hyun-ah, a former Korean Air executive who assaulted a flight attendant over being served nuts in a bag rather than a dish, forcing the plane to return to the gate, avoided jail time when the South Korean Supreme Court ruled that diverting a taxiing plane isn’t the same as forcing an emergency landing.
Corey Lofton is facing grand-theft charges after two elderly neighbors in Panama City, Fla., told police that he helped them move $26,000 in gold bars as Hurricane Irma approached and they discovered a week later that the bars were missing from the cat litter box where they were hidden.
Angel Colon, 54, a school bus driver in Lakewood, N.J., was charged with drunken driving and child endangerment after authorities said his bus, carrying about 20 students, was involved in a road-rage accident involving the bus and another vehicle.
Julieta Corredor, 83, a widow who for more than a decade refused to sell her town house in Orlando, Fla., to a time-share company, gave in and accepted about $1.5 million, clearing the way for a pair of high-rise towers.
Francis Pierre flagged down two Boston police officers when he realized his wife, Tracey, wasn’t going to make it to the hospital in time to give birth, and together they delivered his daughter, with him cutting the umbilical cord.
Will Powers of Farmington Hills, Mich., said the remains of his two cats, Arcturus and Cygnus, which held Guinness World Records for the tallest domestic cat and longest-tailed cat and had been missing since a Nov. 12 house fire, were found in the destroyed home’s basement.
Shirley Squires, 87, of Guilford, Vt., has turned her home into a veritable creche museum, featuring more than 1,400 Nativity scenes, ranging in size from about waist high to the size of a thimble, that she’s been collecting since the 1990s.