In the news

■ Reed Rowley, vice president of the Stanley Hotel in Colorado, which served as Stephen King’s inspiration to write The Shining, said 300 guests were sound asleep when a black bear figured out how to open the hotel’s front door and climbed over furniture before walking back out.

■ Khaw Kim-sun, 53, an anesthesiologist from Malaysia, is accused of killing his wife, Wong Siew-fung, and his 16-year-old daughter by placing a leaking exercise ball filled with carbon monoxide in the trunk of his wife’s Mini Cooper. ■ David Fors, 58, a former U.S. Postal Service worker from Massachusetts, pleaded guilty to stealing about $ 82,000 worth of postage stamps and selling some online at discounted rates after post office surveillance cameras caught him pilfering packages of stamps.

■ Steve Prator, a Louisiana sheriff, said a woman found legal documents with her forged signature showing she’d been granted a divorce she had never requested, leading to the arrest of her husband, Demario Clark, 27, and his girlfriend, Lisa McKinney, 50, on charges of filing false public records and forgery. ■ Dylan Dyke, 12, a Michigan boy with autism, will likely be able to keep his emotional support ducks after dozens of people showed up to help Dylan and his parents appeal a nuisance order that was issued by town officials in response to complaints about the animals.

■ Ryan Turner, an officer in Aspen, Colo., said a parked Subaru Forester’s back window was shattered and the car’s tailgate had a large dent after a woman on a bicycle with a halffull beer in its water bottle holder, crashed the bike into the vehicle, resulting in police citing her for driving under the influence.

■ Nathaniel Nelson, 49, a former maintenance worker at a Kansas City, Mo., church, pleaded guilty to spray-painting a racial slur, the letters KKK, and a swastikalike symbol on the church, and setting fire to a cultural center office to cover up a burglary.