In the news

■ Sandra Dodge-Streich, a pet shop owner in Redding, Calif., said Eres, a 14-foot albino reticulated python that disappeared when the store was evacuated as wildfires threatened the city — prompting a warning to residents to keep small pets indoors — has been found safe, coiled up in a milk crate.

■ Tae Lovelace, who was at a park in Covington, Ga., with his family feeding homeless people, held a naked man at gunpoint when the man charged at the group, prompting a call to police who arrested the man on public-indecency and other counts.

■ Zoe Carew, 7, who spotted a work-zone warning sign that read “LINEMEN” as her father drove her to visit her grandparents near Wellington, New Zealand, and wrote a letter complaining that the sign was sexist, persuaded the country’s transportation agency to change such signs to read “LINE CREW.”

■ Matt Thorpe, a Colorado wildlife manager, said a Durango man who was seen leaving food in his backyard for bears paid a $1,000 fine on the spot when he was cited for the third time illegally feeding the animals.

■ Kimberly Gardner, 30, of Autauga, Ala., who pleaded guilty to falsely reporting that someone had broken into her car so she could ask a sheriff’s deputy to open the door after she locked herself out, was fined $100 and sentenced to 10 days in jail and two years of probation.

■ Scott Landry, one of a group of rescuers who freed a humpback whale from an anchor line off the Cape Cod coast, said officials are worried that wounds near the whale’s mouth will become infected after the whale swam away with the rope still around its body.

■ Arongkron “Paul” Malasukum of New York City was sentenced by a federal judge in Texas to nine months in prison for illegally exporting to Thailand more than $150,000 worth of body parts, including skulls, from endangered African lions and tigers.

■ Trenton Cook, 24, of Columbus, Ga., is facing a vehicular-homicide charge after being accused of texting as he ran over his 22-monthold son twice in his driveway, telling police that he felt two bumps as he parked his car and got out to find he’d run over the toddler.

■ Kristen Elizabeth Jones, 21, accused of shooting her roommate and setting their home on fire near Luther, Okla., to hide the evidence, was arrested in Texas on charges of murder, arson and corpse desecration.