In the news

■ Ben Belnap and his wife, Jackee, who had saved $1,060 to repay his parents for University of Utah football season tickets, discovered that the envelope containing the money had been fed through a shredder by their 2-yearold son, Leo.

■ Cory Morris of Ludlow Falls, Ohio, filmed driving his pickup with a cow poking its head out of the back window, says 18-month-old Annie has been part of his life since her mother rejected her at birth, adding that the 800-pound Annie regularly climbs into the back seat of his truck.

■ Parul Patel, the owner of a Jacksonville, Fla., gas station, placed a sign in his store asking customers not to warm urine in the microwave after people began using it to warm up samples before dropping the specimens off at nearby medical labs.

■ Saga Vanecek, 8, stepped on a 34-inch sword in a wood-and-leather sheath believed to be about 1,500 years old while helping her father with his boat on Vidostern lake in southern Sweden, with Mikael Nordstrom of the Jonkoping County museum saying her find also led to the discovery of a broach when others searched the lake.

■ Jared Hensley, athletic director at Soddy-Daisy High School in Tennessee, apologized for saying “blame the girls, because they pretty much ruin everything” about a ban on wearing athletic shorts at school, but will serve a 10-day suspension without pay imposed by the school district.

■ Garret Ankney, 54, of Nashville, Tenn., was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after, police said, he used an ax to slice his neighbor’s forearms because Ankney believed the neighbor’s dogs had eaten or killed his chickens.