In the news

■ J. Eggleston, a Republican state representative of Maysville, Mo., who was not a compatible donor for his wife, Cathie, donated a kidney in a three-way transplant exchange to help her get a new organ.

■ Capt. Michael Sedlacek of Madison, Ala., Fire and Rescue, said a mother and daughter were treated for hypothermia after they tumbled into a lake while trying to save their dog, which had fallen through the ice and did not survive.

■ Brian Edwards choked up at times while speaking at a memorial service attended by hundreds of people for his 9-year-old border collie, Piper, which became an Internet sensation for keeping an airport in northern Michigan free of wildlife but was recently euthanized after battling prostate cancer.

■ Bryan Massey, a former postal carrier from Oak Ridge, La., faces up to five years in prison after, a U.S. attorney said, he pleaded guilty to taking at least 11 Veterans Affairs parcels containing prescription drugs from November 2016 to June.

■ Anthony Guglielmi, Chicago police spokesman, said that after Marilyn Hartman, 66, slipped past security at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport flew to London, the airline realized that she didn’t have a ticket, resulting in her arrest.

■ Lonnie Chester and Susan Chester of Norvell Township, Mich., told the Jackson Citizen Patriot that their two labradoodles begged to be let outside, then led the Chesters into the 9-degree cold to save a woman in her 80s who was wearing only a nightgown and was lying on the ground. ■ Brian Smith, 38, was arrested on charges including domestic assault after he jabbed his 62-year-old boyfriend with hypodermic needles and held him captive for four hours before a neighbor called authorities, St. Louis police said.

■ Nelci Tetley, 67, was charged last week in the death and dismembering of her 55-year-old ex-boyfriend, Jeffrey Albertsman, and she is a person of interest in a separate 10-year-old case: the death of Michael Scot Louis, whose chopped-up body was found in garbage bags along the Tomoka River, said police in Daytona Beach, Fla.

■ Gavin Williamson, Britain’s defense secretary, described as an “inspiration” a team of British soldiers that became the first all-female group to ski 1,056 miles across Antarctica using only muscle power, navigating crevasse fields and pulling sleds weighing 176 pounds over 62 days.