In the news

■ Kathy Gilroy, 68, an anti-gambling crusader from Villa Park, Ill., agrees it’s ironic that she won $25,000 playing a free sweepstakes game at a gambling cafe, but said the distinction is that she didn’t spend her own money to gamble.

■ Andrea Reid was heading to a Christmas Eve family gathering when she spied several gifts, with tags said that said they were for “Branson” from “Pops, Windy, Randy and Jack,” along an interstate in North Port, Fla., and is now trying to find “Branson.”

■ Lindy Lou Layman, 29, on a first date at the home of Houston lawyer Anthony Buzbee, was arrested on a count of criminal mischief after Buzbee told police Layman refused to leave and damaged several pieces of art, including two original works by Andy Warhol valued at $500,000 each.

■ Agnes Chen, chief of Taiwan’s Bureau of Consular Affairs, resigned after 200,000 passports were printed that mistakenly included an image of Washington Dulles International Airport instead of Taiwan’s similarly designed Taoyuan airport.

■ Wilmer Garcia, 23, wearing a green T-shirt emblazoned with the words “Trust Me,” was arrested in Falls Church, Va., with another man after police said they stole an unlocked car left running and parked on the street by its owner so it could warm up.

■ Amanda Isett, a Pennsylvania Game Commission wildlife officer used a crate, a net and an Army blanket to coax a young snowy owl into a box after it became trapped in the barbed wire atop a fence at a state prison in Huntingdon.

■ Michael Oleksik, 23, caught on security video pummeling an ATM’s touch screen and causing about $5,000 in damage, reportedly told police in Cocoa, Fla., he was in a hurry and became angry because he didn’t know what to do when the machine dispensed too much cash.

■ Jamie Tice, 37, of Hendersonville, Tenn., faces charges of aggravated statutory rape in two counties after investigators said she admitted to the parents of a 14-year-old boy that she had been having sex with their son in places such as a hotel and a high school parking lot over the past year.

■ James Bentivegna, a Superior Court judge in Hartford, Conn., denied a petition from an animal-welfare group asking that he grant personhood to three female Asian elephants in a traveling petting zoo, calling the request “wholly frivolous on its face in legal terms.”