In the news

■ Sunita Jairam, 48, of Lexington, Ky., charged with drunken driving, endangering the welfare of a child and other counts, told police after her arrest that she “drank a bunch of beer” and drove at 150 mph with her son beside her “to teach her son a lesson.”

■ Jeff Hughes, a police spokesman in Wichita Falls, Texas, said a woman who spent about three hours driving an electric shopping cart around a Walmart store parking lot while drinking wine from a Pringles can wasn’t arrested but was banned from the store.

■ Thomas Jadlowski, of Sherman, N.Y., a hunter who pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide and hunting after sunset for accidentally killing a neighbor he mistook for a deer as she was out walking her dogs in 2017, was sentenced to one to three years in prison.

■ Ernst Dimanche of Miami Gardens, Fla., said he “just went crazy” when he popped his car’s hood and found a boa constrictor resting on the engine but then got a neighbor to help remove the serpent when he called animal control and was told it would cost $300 to remove it.

■ Mark Saltzman, a police sergeant in Evansville, Ind., said a gunman was quickly tackled by patrons after he opened fire during a bingo game inside a crowded Veterans of Foreign Wars post, wounding one person in what was described as a long-running personal dispute.

■ Lauren Bluestone, the animal-control director in Nashville, Tenn., said coyote encounters are becoming more frequent as the city expands, after a coyote sprinted through a loading dock into a city convention center where it was captured in a bathroom and later released into a woods.

■ John Buttle, a San Diego police officer, said firefighters were called to rinse off a woman who was doused with gasoline by a man who fled after trying to set her on fire and threatening her with a machete after accusing her of stealing watches.

■ Michael LaVigne was indicted on an accusation of felony murder after Atlanta police said he shot and killed his wife of just two weeks during a shootout with a suspected gang member who tried to rob them during a drug buy at a restaurant.

■ Rayne Byron, a fourthgrade student in Moss Point, Miss., said she plans to study agriculture when she gets to college after winning a $1,000 scholarship by growing a 23-pound cabbage that she planted in a tire as a third-grader to win a statewide competition.