In the news

■ Sean Reilly, spokesman for Overland Park, Kan., said the city has received $107,000 from a family’s insurance company after a 5-year-old boy accidentally knocked over and damaged a sculpture that was on display at a community center art fair.

■ Chase Bishop, 29, the FBI agent facing an assault charge for accidentally dropping and firing his gun while dancing at a Denver nightspot, hitting a bystander in the leg, can carry his work weapon again as he and his attorneys consider a plea deal, a judge ruled.

■ Sari Koshetz, a Transportation Security Administration spokesman, said when airport security screeners in Miami discovered a python hidden inside an external hard drive, they detained the passenger and confiscated the snake, even though it was “obviously not an imminent terrorist threat.”

■ Ricardo Rossello, the governor of Puerto Rico, a U.S. commonwealth, wants a police officer fired after a woman complained he did nothing when she was confronted at a park in Cook County, Ill., by a man who questioned her U.S. citizenship because she was wearing a shirt depicting the Puerto Rican flag.

■ John Burke, an Australian wildlife ranger, said authorities finally captured a 15-foot, 1,300 pound saltwater crocodile that had been lurking for years in a Northern Territory River popular with tourists that was thought to be relatively safe from the predators.

■ Preston Smith, 24, of Morgantown, W.Va., accused of faking his own kidnapping in order to get $2,000 from his family, sent a text message and called his brother claiming that he was being held at gunpoint, sheriff’s deputies said.

■ David Sommers, 62, of Levittown, Pa., who had more than 3,400 protected diamondback terrapin hatchlings seized from his home, has been indicted on charges he poached the turtles and their eggs from coastal marshes in New Jersey to smuggle into Canada, prosecutors said.

■ Jose Enriquez Jr., a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol spokesman, said when a drug-sniffing dog alerted to a 28-year-old U.S. citizen at a checkpoint near Salton City, Calif., inspectors found 2.2 pounds of opium paste taped to the man’s buttocks “like implants.”