In the news

■ Bert Moore, worried that a doe deer that wandered into a Walmart store in Wooster, Ohio, might hurt itself or others, pinned the deer to the floor until he, another shopper and a store employee were able to guide the animal back outside, where it ran across a field and disappeared.

■ Rudy Quinones, the owner of a San Antonio auto repair shop, wrote a check for $4,986 to pay off a home mortgage held by Albert Bringas, 69, the oldest of his 13 employees, freeing his longtime employee of the monthly payment so he could retire six months earlier than he had planned. ■ Nathan Newell, 19, a bank teller in Bel Air, Md., accused of breaking into the home of a 79-year-old customer who had recently withdrawn a large sum of money, was fired after he was arrested, telling police that he did it because he was tired of working two jobs.

■ Nguyen Nang Tinh, a Vietnamese music teacher, was sentenced to 11 years in jail for making “anti-state” social media posts that included photos, videos and comments critical of the government, as well as messages instigating demonstrations, prosecutors said. ■ Bruce Bennett, a judge in Baton Rouge who suggested that a convicted rapist pay his victim $150,000 in exchange for a possibly reduced sentence, said after the victim rejected the unsolicited payment that he made the proposal to “partially empower” her to control her “economic destiny.”

■ Marcella Zoia, 19, recorded on video throwing a chair off a 45th story balcony from a downtown Toronto high-rise, is facing six months in prison after pleading guilty to mischief causing danger to life, prosecutors said.

■ Kenneth Lilly, 32, of St. Paul, Minn., who pleaded guilty to a road-rage shooting where he wounded a bus driver whose bus scraped Lilly’s car as the driver tried to merge onto a highway during a snowstorm, was sentenced to 86 months in prison.