In the news

■ Lauren Cutsaw, 32, pulled over by police in Bluffton, S.C., after speeding past a stop sign at 60 mph, told officers they shouldn’t arrest her for driving while intoxicated, speeding and other counts because she’s a “very clean, thoroughbred, white girl,” police said.

■ Monica Sparks, a Democrat, and her Republican twin sister, Jessica Ann Tyson, both won their party’s nomination in Tuesday’s primary election in different districts for seats on the Kent County, Mich., board of commissioners, advancing to the November general election.

■ Aaron Davis, 36, of Long Branch, N.J., faces animal-cruelty charges after being accused of leaving a young pit bull mix to drown in a cage at water’s edge as the tide was rising, but a passer-by noticed the cage and rescued the dog.

■ Larry Crowson, a Houston, Texas, police lieutenant, said a 68-year-old grandmother, identified as “Granny Jean,” shot through her front door, wounding a man who was masturbating outside and had followed her back to her house when she took out the trash.

■ Jaime MacNaughton, an attorney for Montana’s Commissioner of Political Practices, issued an advisory opinion allowing state voters to take “ballot selfies” of themselves and their marked ballots at polling places on Election Day, describing it as a right of self-expression.

■ Dee Dee Jones, the school superintendent in Hartselle, Ala., said she immediately suspended a high school student who doctored a photo that was posted on social media to make it appear that several classmates were wearing Ku Klux Klan hoods.

■ Tasha Goforth found her 21-year-old brother, Joe Rightmire, alive but pinned under a pickup where he had been trapped for two days after it rolled into a ravine near Idaho Falls, Idaho, and called emergency workers who used air bags to lift the vehicle to free him.

■ Ashley Nadeau, whose home in Topeka, Kan., was destroyed when a downed utility line sparked an explosion three weeks ago, found one of her two missing cats in a pipe at the home site and the next day returned to find the second cat alive under a pile of rubble.

■ Reginald Wooding Jr., 22, of Baltimore, went for a driver’s test but left in handcuffs when a state trooper found marijuana, a scale, more than $15,000 in cash and a loaded handgun in his car after the examiner became suspicious about the car’s odor.