In the news

■ Donald Sanborn said he was about 5 miles into the Garden of the Gods 10 Mile Run near Colorado Springs, Colo., when a bear appeared on the side of the road filled with runners, where the animal hesitated until a large enough gap emerged for it to comfortably amble across. ■ George H.W. Bush, the nation’s 41st president, marked his 93rd birthday Monday with a low-key family celebration at the Bush family summer compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. ■ Tiffany Johnson, 32, a mother of three from North Carolina, told a reporter, “Who cares about a limb? It’s a limb and I’m here,” in describing the aftermath of an attack by a tiger shark which bit off her right arm below the elbow while she snorkled above a shallow reef in the Bahamas.

■ Mike Ezell, sheriff of Jackson County, Miss., said two off-duty police officers, Raymond Lias of Moss Point and Michael Ladnier of Pascagoula, were arrested on drunken-driving and disorderly conduct charges after getting into a fight in a package-store parking lot. ■ Randy Boyd, a Republican candidate for Tennessee governor, hit the ground running with campaign swag ahead of the 2018 election, offering typical gear such as caps, T-shirts and bumper stickers, as well as fidget spinners, “Babies for Boyd” onesies and “Chief Pawlicy Advisor” dog bowls.

■ W. Patrick Swanton, a police sergeant in Waco, Texas, said a woman got her money back but left without her chicken nuggets after she refused to budge while waiting in line and called 911 to complain that a fast-food restaurant was taking too long to deliver her order.

■ Megan Gething, 12, of Gloucester, Mass., said she used what she learned from The Hunger Games novels and quickly fashioned an impromptu tourniquet to staunch the flow of blood when a friend slipped and cut the calf of her leg open as they played in a marsh. ■ Mark Musser of the Jacksonville, Fla., sheriff ’s office, said the driver of a street sweeper died when he became entangled and was sucked under the machine while trying to clear debris from underneath it while stopped in a neighborhood parking lot.

■ Lydia Cormaney, a 23-year-old college student, told police in Gillette, Wyo., she was working on a term paper on kleptomania after she was caught shoplifting, and now faces three felony charges after investigators later found thousands of dollars’ worth of stolen items in her dorm room.