In the news
■ Ashley Miller, an Ocean City, Md., police spokesman, said a 2-year-old girl is in good condition after being thrown into the water from a pickup while still in her car seat and rescued by an unidentified man who jumped in to save her after a five-vehicle pileup on a bridge over Assawoman Bay.
■ Tim Nielsen, 57, of Chicago, faces four counts of attempted murder over accusations that he drove his pickup onto a median when he became angry that a group of “yuppies with dogs” were having a picnic in Logan Square, police said.
■ Zhou, a Chinese man identified only by his surname, passed undetected through a 100-mile stretch of the highly militarized Taiwan Strait in an 8-foot rubber dinghy, fleeing his native China for Taiwan in search of “freedom,” Taiwan’s coast guard said.
■ Lavinia “Lavi” Mounga, who was traveling from Salt Lake City to Hawaii, calls herself “lucky” after she went into labor unexpectedly and prematurely on a flight that had a doctor and a team of three neonatal medical nurses on board who delivered her son, Raymond, after just 29 weeks in the womb.
■ James Trahan, 42, of Moss Bluff, La., was fired from his job as a jail officer after he was arrested and charged with indecent behavior involving a juvenile girl, the Calcasieu Parish sheriff’s office said.
■ Torie Gray, who said he saw a vehicle ahead of him swerve to avoid a great horned owl, discovered he had hit the bird which was alive but stuck in his truck’s grille, where it spent hours as he drove hundreds of miles from Alabama to Naples, Fla.
■ Christina Richardson, supervisor of the Noccalula Falls Park in Gadsden, Ala., expects the park will reopen by the end of the week after a weekend fire destroyed a petting zoo barn and killed about 75 animals, including a lemur, birds, turtles and snakes.
■ Gabe Leland, 38, a Detroit city councilman, resigned after pleading guilty to accepting an illegal $7,500 cash campaign contribution that prosecutors said was intended to influence his vote on matters before the council.
■ Dorian Strubing, 2, celebrated his rescue with a Popsicle after firefighters and medical staff at a Portland, Tenn., hospital used a power saw and screwdrivers to extract him from an antique wooden barrel in which he became stuck from the chest down during a visit with his grandparents.