In the news
■ Megan Holman, 25, of Walhalla, S.C., was cited for public intoxication after police decided to drop a drunken-driving charge leveled when Holman was detained for cruising down a street about a mile from her home in a battery-powered toy truck.
■ Martin Strozeski of Kingswood, N.J., a former Westminster Dog Show winning breeder, said his kennel became “a hobby turned bad” after police and animal-welfare workers seized nearly 200 terriers and dachshunds that were living in squalor and getting minimal veterinary care.
■ Donald Tate, 48, of Franklinton, La., who repeatedly called 911 to complain that his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend had a shotgun and assault rifle, faces up to five years in prison after being convicted of making false communications to get an emergency response, prosecutors said.
■ Kelvin Joe, 53, of Columbia, Mo., who told police he went to two middle schools and a private Christian school to offer students money as a “blessing,” pleaded guilty to trespassing and was sentenced to two years’ probation.
■ Laith Waleed Alebbini, 28, a Jordanian citizen living in Ohio who was convicted of attempting to join the Islamic State group so he could become a suicide bomber, was sentenced to 15 years in prison, federal prosecutors said.
■ Melanie Green, 46, of Cumming, Ga., accused of shooting her boyfriend in the arm while he was sleeping just hours after being served with a court order to stay away from him, was charged with assault, stalking and violating a restraining order, police said.
■ David Abston, the sheriff of Pickens County, Ala., resigned after being accused of using his own church and a food bank to purchase cut-rate food for jail inmates so he could pocket thousands of dollars under an old law that let sheriffs keep leftover state funds used to feed prisoners.
■ Rodney Smith Jr., an Alabama man on a mission to mow lawns for free for veterans in all 50 states, said on social media that he’s completed his quest and is on his way home from Hawaii after cutting grass for a veteran in Oahu.
■ Jerry Mickelson, the promoter for Chicago’s Mamby on the Beach music festival, said he may move the late August event to a nearby grassy field after a pair of endangered piping plovers caused a permit headache by using the festival’s beachfront locale as a nesting site.