In the news

■ Joe Trillo, who is running as an independent candidate for Rhode Island governor, had to be rescued by the Coast Guard after his yacht hit an uncharted rock near Charlestown while blasting patriotic music toward beach-goers to draw attention to his campaign.

■ Francis Crowley, 32, who was watching a 5-month-old infant, was arrested on a criminal endangerment charge after sheriff’s deputies in Missoula, Mont., rescued the child who had been left buried for about nine hours under sticks and debris in the woods.

■ Larriah Binns of Augusta, Maine, who said that none of her friends could make it to her eighth birthday party, started jumping up and down in excitement when she saw cars pulling up in front of her home when about a dozen city police officers threw her a party, complete with gifts, balloons and cake.

■ Paul Parizek, a police sergeant in Des Moines, Iowa, said he expects “the punishment to fit the crime is probably going to be in the home,” after police who followed a car zig-zagging down a street before it crashed found a 9-year-old girl at the wheel and a 7-year-old riding shotgun.

■ Richard Menard, a church pastor in St. Johnsbury, Vt., armed himself with a handgun when he heard the church alarm go off and and yelled “Freeze” when he spotted a burglar fleeing the scene who was tracked down and arrested by police a day later.

■ Jordan Carbery, a Canadian park ranger, managed to drive himself to the hospital after being badly mauled by a mother grizzly bear when she attacked as he tried to photograph her cubs as they climbed a cherry tree outside his home in Bella Coola, British Columbia.

■ Thomas Lewter, 34, of Athens, Ala., was tackled by several congregation members and held until police arrived to arrest him after he took over a church pulpit and tried to pull out a handgun as he talked about his pending divorce.

■ Melissa Work of Hudson, Fla., said that after her husband, Gene, had a heart attack as he laid sod in their yard to avoid being fined by their homeowners’ association, seven of the firefighters who responded to the emergency call returned to finish the job.

■ Sheryl Lynch, an Indianapolis circuit judge, dismissed a lawsuit filed by members of the First Church of Cannabis seeking to have marijuana recognized as a sacrament, saying the congregation’s love for marijuana does not count as practicing a religion.