In the news

■ David Menser, 51, handed a bank teller in Columbus, Ohio, a note saying he was armed and demanding cash, and handed over his driver’s license when the teller said it was needed to get additional funds from an automatic cash machine, enabling police to track him down and make an arrest.

■ Ben Adams dropped to one knee and proposed to Elizabeth Kahle at her home in Frisco, Texas, nine days later than he expected after their luggage, with the engagement ring inside, was mistakenly sent to Boston by an airline on their return to Texas from a trip to Europe.

■ Eve Thomas, who has been with the Knoxville, Tenn., Police Department since 1993, rising to the rank of deputy chief, will become the department’s first female police chief Monday, Mayor Madeline Rogero announced.

■ Jaime Revis, 36, of Springfield, Ohio, accused of taking a dead blue morpho butterfly from an exhibit at the Krohn Conservatory in Cincinnati, pleaded guilty to theft and was sentenced to probation.

■ Mugdha Jyoti Mahanta, a police superintendent in Gauhati, India, said a rat wiggled into a bank automated teller machine and chewed to shreds 500-rupee and 2,000-rupee notes worth more than $19,000 before it died in the machine.

■ Melisa Aquino Arias, 23, of Passaic, N.J., pleaded guilty to participating in a monthlong crime rampage across two states, including an attempted bank robbery during which she and another woman dressed as nuns, and faces up to 41 years in prison, prosecutors said.

■ Fred Johnson, 56, was charged with manslaughter and mayhem in a wreck on Interstate 10 near Diamondhead, Miss., after police said that during a family argument, he slammed on the brakes in front of a caravan of his relatives’ vehicles, causing a chain-reaction crash that killed a woman on a motorcycle.

■ James Rynerson, 38, released by mistake from a jail in Grand Junction, Colo., where he was awaiting trial on menacing and other counts, had less than two hours of freedom before his wife realized the error and made him surrender to authorities, deputies said.

■ Hudson Golebiewski, 14, an autistic eighth-grader in Vestal, N.Y., said he was happy to see his service dog, a golden retriever named Oscer, get its own photo, taken against a gray background like that of any other student, and placed next to Hudson’s picture in the school yearbook.