In the news
■ Domenic Esposito, a Boston-based artist who helped place an 11-foot steel sculpture of a bent drug spoon outside Purdue Pharma’s headquarters in Stamford, Conn., to protest the company’s opioid drug sales, can get the artwork back from police, who seized it for obstructing the sidewalk.
■ Liz Rose of Wilmington, Mass., said she had started to give up hope of recapturing Tiggs, her 4-yearold white tegu lizard, when the 3½-foot-long animal, a little skinnier than when it escaped a month ago, was found in a neighbor’s shed.
■ Manuel Oliver and his wife, Patricia, whose son, Joaquin, was killed Feb. 14 when a gunman attacked a high school in Parkland, Fla., attended a “back-toschool” fashion show in Boston featuring bullet-resistant vests, helmets and other safety gear at an event calling for stricter gun laws.
■ Jonathan White, 40, of Hardin County, Tenn., under investigation for making threats on social media, was arrested after he provided a live pipe bomb to an undercover agent, state investigators said.
■ Cathy Sanders, owner of a buffalo farm near Pleasant Lake, Ind., said just a handful of the 58 bison that escaped their pens to roam the 300-acre property have been recaptured, prompting police to warn area residents not to approach the animals because “they can become aggressive.”
■ Adam Kurtz, a federal wildlife manager, said it is “really frustrating when you see people harass these animals,” after an Alabama man was fined $1,500 for touching a Hawaiian monk seal as well as harassing a sea turtle on Kauai and then posting the videos on social media.
■ Shawn Hallett, 38, of Levelland, Texas, was arrested on voyeurism charges in Greenville, S.C., after he was caught wearing a wig, makeup and women’s clothing to take pictures of a woman from under the stall divider in a convenience store bathroom.
■ Jason Siesser, 44, of Columbia, Mo., accused of using bitcoins to buy toxins through the mail to kill a woman who rejected him, was arrested after FBI agents said he tried to purchase poison to use as a chemical weapon, federal prosecutors said.
■ Sam Click, a police officer in Seagoville, Texas, can be heard on his body camera calling for backup when he spotted a burning home just before the camera recorded him breaking down a back door to rescue a man and his six nephews who were asleep inside.