In the news

■ Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., the 49-yearold veteran who lost her legs in the Iraq War, is pregnant with her second child, she said in a news release, meaning she will become the first U.S. senator to give birth while in office.

■ Jovanna Calzadillas of Arizona, a day before her scheduled discharge from a Phoenix hospital, said Wednesday that part of her changed when she was shot in the head during the Las Vegas mass shooting but that she will come back stronger.

■ John McGrory, with the Police Department in Clovis, Calif., is featured in a video on the department’s Facebook page of him giving a nut to a squirrel that scampered over to him on Squirrel Appreciation Day. ■ Sheriff Leon Lott of Richland County, S.C., said Marvin Toatley, 28, who faces charges after attacking comedian Steve Brown because Brown was picking on him during a performance, shouldn’t have sat in the front row of a Columbia comedy club if he didn’t want to be teased.

■ Giraud Dickson, a 34-year-old of Bridgeport, Conn., who worked for a courier service used by the international charity Save the Children, pleaded guilty to having 3 pounds of PCP, a hallucinogenic drug, sent to the charity’s Fairfield offices where he frequently stopped by the mailroom. ■ Jarrett Johnson of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said a truck hauling four elephants stalled in eastern Oklahoma, blocking a lane of a busy highway near Eufaula for about two hours while the elephants were transferred to another trailer.

■ Elad Dvash-Banks and his husband, Andrew, of Los Angeles allege in a lawsuit that the U.S. State Department is discriminating against same-sex binational couples because it denied citizenship at birth to one of their twin boys, who have the same surrogate mother but different fathers, one being Elad, an Israeli citizen. ■ Michael Carey Clemans, 57, of Sacramento, Calif., was sentenced to life in federal prison for buying Filipino children for sex, working with people in the Philippines to obtain temporary custody of the girls, many of whom were orphans or victims of natural disasters.

■ Margaret LoCicero jokingly said she wanted a marching band to celebrate her 100th birthday — and got exactly that, as dozens of Boardman High School band members played for her in the hallways of her Youngstown, Ohio, assisted-living center.