In the news
■ Todd Carmichael, co-founder of a Philadelphia coffee company, said school officials in Kingston, Pa., rejected his offer of $22,000 to pay off the school lunch debts that had been the subject of a district letter warning parents that children who didn’t pay up could end up in foster care.
■ Joe Manchin, a Democratic U.S. senator from West Virginia, and his Republican counterpart, Shelley Moore Capito, took rides on adjoining zip lines at the World Scout Jamboree at the Summit Bechtel Reserve near Beckley, W.Va.
■ Felishadae Young of Nashville, Tenn., said she and other neighbors gave water, food and fuel to a man who sat in a van with his 12-year-old son for four hours with their driveway blocked by a federal immigration agent and then formed a human chain so the two could run into their house and escape.
■ Ryan Harrington, a pizza delivery driver in Burlington, Vt., said he heard a thud and knew he had hit a goose that was waddling across the road but he was surprised to find it alive and stuck in his car’s front grille when he returned to work, where an animal-rescue group arrived to help free the fowl.
■ Daniel Murphy, a new deputy police commissioner in Baltimore, reported that he and his wife were approached by four men who showed a gun and robbed them of a wallet, a purse, cash and several cellphones.
■ Aaron Looney, a New Orleans police spokesman, said city crews spent the night cleaning syrup from one block of a French Quarter street after a rubber shipping bladder on a container truck broke, spilling 1,000 gallons of the goo.
■ Jesse Boyd, 38, a tiki bar cook in Lake Lure, N.C., wanted on warrants accusing him of forgery or counterfeiting in Iowa, fled into a river to swim away from U.S. marshals but eventually surrendered to lawmen lining the river downstream.
■ Camesha Walters, a former Navy petty officer in Norfolk, Va., was sentenced to five months in prison for stealing nearly $140,000 in housing benefits by falsely claiming that her husband lived in New York when he actually lives in Bangladesh.
■ Jamie Underwood, 39, of Winston-Salem, N.C., convicted of vandalizing the more than century-old Cape Hatteras Lighthouse by carving initials into its bronze door with a pocketknife, was ordered to pay $1,922 in restitution and spend a year on probation.