In the news

■ Brittany Alexus, 22, who was a visitor at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, was arrested after a new body scanner detected a foreign object inside her, leading police to then search her vehicle where they reported finding 58.3 grams of synthetic marijuana.

■ Christal Ellard, coordinator for Animal Allies of Florida, said about 200 small pet pigs were collected from a Florida property, where the owner had “the best intentions” but the animals are very fertile and the pig situation quickly grew out of control.

■ Phil Bryant, governor of Mississippi, has his original wedding ring back nearly three decades after he lost it thanks to Jeff Maher, who called the governor’s office to report that he had found an engraved gold wedding band in a couch that he claimed from a roadside outside the house of first lady Deborah Bryant’s cousin.

■ Gregory Staffordsmith, a captain with New Jersey police, said a father was charged with neglect after his baby son crawled through an open front door and about 140 feet into a roadway before a motorist saw him and took him to safety.

■ Mary Winchenbach, a Maine woman who uses moose droppings to make art and knickknacks, said she has gotten requests from all over the country for the unusual items after a video of her selling her wares at Maine’s Common Ground Country Fair went viral.

■ Jason Myers, the sheriff in Marion County, Ore., apologized for an arrest caught on video that ended with one of his deputies punching a homeless person 17 times, adding that his staffer violated department use-of-force policy.

■ Yu Wei Gong pleaded guilty to manslaughter and abuse of a corpse, saying he accidentally killed his mother during an argument in their Waikiki apartment in Honolulu, and police found her remains in numerous plastic trash bags in the freezer.

■ Bridget Lambert of Amite, La., pleaded guilty to her role in holding her 22-year-old autistic relative captive, sometimes in a cage, forcing her to work for the family, perform sexual acts and eat her mother’s cremated remains, according to authorities.

■ Michael Kane, a spokesman for Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue in Florida, said an iguana wandered onto a power line and was electrocuted, starting a fire on the power pole and knocking out electricity to a nursing home, resulting in 20 patients being moved to a hospital.