In the news
■ Amy Martin is thanking the neighbors who showed up to successfully urge the city of Bangor, Maine, to let her disabled son C-Jay keep his backyard support chickens, adding that Stella, Salty, Popcorn, Cheeks and Pepper help him make sense of his world.
■ Mark Finses and another Alaska Wildlife trooper stopped their patrol boat 4 miles from shore long enough to let two distressed deer aboard, then hauled them to land where, after a few slow steps, they trotted away.
■ Becki Orze, a zoological specialist at SeaWorld Orlando, is calling the birth of three endangered sawfish pups to a 30-year-old mother believed to have been too old to reproduce a “monumental event” and only the second time ever in captivity.
■ Vallerrie Martinez has racked up five traffic tickets for lowriding but sees a smoother road ahead after Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a repeal of bans on the modified classic cars with dropped suspension and hydraulic lift.
■ Rachel Marie Powell, the Pennsylvania mother of eight known as the ax-wielding “pink hat lady” at the Jan. 6 riot, faces almost five years in prison despite her teenage son’s plea that she not have to miss her grandchildren’s birthday parties.
■ Anna Machado says she’s praying for God to take away her anger and is sorry she started a brawl at the Houston sentencing of the man who killed his ex-girlfriend — Machado’s 16-year-old daughter — as the teenager walked her dog.
■ Jon McClintock, an Anaheim, Calif., police spokesman, says no arrests have been made in a Fantasyland free-for-all at Disneyland where two adults threw roundhouse punches, one combatant bumped into a baby stroller and two children were caught in the fray.
■ Jeff Jellison, coroner in Indiana’s Hamilton County, says celebration over linking a bone to an Indianapolis man missing for 30 years turned somber with the realization that it’s one more victim of suspected serial killer Herbert Baumeister who killed himself in 1996.
■ Harold F. Pryor, Broward state attorney in Florida, says his office knew Leonard Allen Cure as a “smart, funny and kind person” who hoped to study radio broadcast in college and was buying his first home before he was killed by a Georgia lawman during a traffic stop 3 years after being exonerated of the robbery for which he served 16 years.