In the news
■ David Haenelt, a Fire Department lieutenant in Englewood, N.J., said a female basset hound named Libby, rescued by firefighters after she fell from a fourth-floor apartment window and was impaled in the left front leg by a lamppost, had a “lucky day” as she’s expected to make a full recovery.
■ Tammy Duckworth, a U.S. senator from Illinois who lost both legs when the helicopter she was piloting was shot down in Iraq in 2004, returned to the country for the first time on a “whirlwind” trip to express hope that Iraq will be “a close ally of the United States for many years to come.”
■ Matt Easton, 24, a political science major at Mormon-owned Brigham Young University, earned applause from fellow students and the audience by saying that “I am proud to be a gay son of God” during a valedictorian speech in which he publicly announced his sexuality.
■ Anthony Salcido, whose daughter was among three children inside an inflatable bounce house in Muskogee, Okla., that was carried off by a gust of wind, said it kept “flipping over” until several adults were able to pull it back to the ground.
■ Andrew Gausden, a fire service spokesman in East Sussex, England, said a wildfire that burned 14 acres in the Ashdown Forest, which was the inspiration for the 100 Acre Wood in A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh stories, did not appear to have been started deliberately.
■ Michael Middleton, 43, was given a 12-month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to bigamy by marrying four different women from Georgia, Alabama, New Hampshire and Kentucky to gain access to their assets, prosecutors in New Hampshire said.
■ Glenn Gholar Jr., 38, of Louisville, Ky., pleaded innocent to first-degree assault charges after being accused of shooting a woman in the face and repeatedly shooting another man as they argued over dog feces that was left in a yard, authorities said.
■ Wilmer Ortiz Torres, 43, charged with arson in two fires that damaged a Pentecostal church in Bethlehem, Pa., was described by police as holding a grudge that “festered and festered” after he was kicked out of the congregation for an undisclosed reason.
■ Lee Livengood, an assistant high school principal in Clarksburg, W.Va., has been reinstated after successfully appealing a suspension levied when he was accused of harassing a transgender student by following him into a restroom and telling him: “You freak me out.”