In the news

■ Pete Piringer, an emergency services spokesman in Montgomery County, Md., said several bystanders pulled a man from the Potomac River after he slipped and fell as he tried to take a selfie near the edge of a section of whitewater known as Great Falls.

■ Jon Cardwell, the high school principal in Fairhope, Ala., apologized, saying he was “disgusted and ashamed” by students who, using their own sound system in the stands, played a song with epithets, racial slurs and demeaning language about women at a high school football game.

■ William McCormick, 28, a U.S. Army soldier stationed at a base near Anchorage, Alaska, suffered life-threatening injuries after a bear he shot while hunting dislodged rocks as it tumbled down a slope, with both the bear and the rocks striking McCormick.

■ Angelo Orlando and his fiancee, Kelly Becker, got a tour of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream plant in Waterbury, Vt., as a reward for his dropping to one knee and handing her a pint of the company’s ice cream labeled, “Marry Me Mint,” to propose at a New York grocery store.

■ Dean Hoffman, 55, of Waldo, Wis., was paying a pizza delivery driver when a woman standing behind him with a black eye made a silent plea for help, prompting the driver to alert police, who arrested Hoffman, saying he kidnapped the woman from her home as he tried to persuade her to resume their relationship.

■ Kevin Arent, 47, was jailed on drunken-driving charges after police said he was behind the wheel of an SUV that struck and injured a police officer at a community college barbecue event in Wildwood, Mo., and then drove off.

■ Douglas Phillips, 38, and Matthew Phillips, 29, face aggravated child abuse charges after being accused of aiding three relatives who kept a malnourished 13-year-old boy naked and in padlocked chains, sheriff’s deputies in Autauga County, Ala., said.

■ Jack Larkin, 38, of Pierce, Colo., was sentenced to 60 years in prison under a plea-bargain deal reached with prosecutors for his role in the 2015 deaths of two Oklahoma men in a marijuana-smuggling dispute.

■ Joe Worsham, a police sergeant in Sandy Springs, Ga., said “We’re wrangling some cows, that’s what we’re doing,” after a livestock truck overturned, spilling a herd of cows onto a highway cloverleaf, causing traffic chaos including wrecks that killed several cows and injured a driver.