In the news

■ Tobias Smith, 24, jumped out of his pickup and ran after it crashed into another vehicle, a utility pole, a fence and a barbershop in Daytona Beach, Fla., but was quickly arrested when his pants fell to his ankles.

■ Dr. Jerome Adams, the U.S. surgeon general, said that when the flight crew asked if there was a doctor on board, he and two nurses worked as a team to provide emergency care to a stricken passenger before takeoff on a flight from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to Jackson, Miss.

■ Suha Elqutt, a Muslim woman who said she was initially denied entry into the Tulsa County, Okla., courthouse because she was wearing a hijab, has filed a federal lawsuit against the county claiming that male deputies violated her religious beliefs by demanding that she remove her headscarf in their presence.

■ John Walker, a Philadelphia police lieutenant, said a kindergartner who thought she had found a bag of sugar in another student’s backpack began chewing on it, “but didn’t break the seal” and didn’t swallow any of what turned out to be cocaine because a teacher, suspecting it was a drug, snatched it away.

■ Tonya Turrell said she heard her 10-year-old son, Jei, screaming “Shark!” and then saw blood on his right forearm where he was bitten while he and his brother splashed around in waist-deep water on a beach at Hilton Head Island, S.C. ■ Tyler Tibbetts, 22, of Dexter, Maine, who was placed in the back seat of a police cruiser after being arrested on a probation violation, now faces theft and other counts after he squeezed through an 11-inchby-11-inch opening while handcuffed to get into the driver’s seat and drive off, authorities said.

■ Guido Amsel of Winnipeg, Manitoba, was convicted by a Canadian judge of attempting to murder his former wife and two lawyers by sending them letter bombs, including one that exploded, injuring one of the lawyers.

■ Chris Bryant, sheriff of Carter County, Okla., said Tracy Garcia, 52, was killed near her home outside Ardmore when she was mauled by her neighbor’s seven small dogs, most of them dachshund-terrier mixes. ■ Randy Skaggs, an assistant fire chief in Ferguson, Mo., said firefighters “got kind of lucky” and managed to loop one end of a rope around a squealing 5-week-old pit bull puppy that had tumbled about 20 feet down a drainage pipe and pulled it to safety.