In the news
■ Tina Springer, 44, of Nash, Okla., was shot in the thigh while riding in the passenger seat of a vehicle when a dog that was in the back seat jumped onto a folding console, causing a gun under the console to go off.
■ Scott Bradford, 55, of Haines, Alaska, whose son Casey Bradford, 21, suffered deep bites on his arm and leg from a bear that mauled him as the two men were hunting moose, said that they will be “standing shoulder to shoulder” on future hunting trips.
■ Johnny Martin, a former supervisor in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, faces up to five years in prison after he was convicted of passing confidential information from databases to crooks who posed as department agents and conned more than 100 migrants into paying exorbitant fees for green cards they never received.
■ Michelle Kolts, 27, a Florida woman obsessed with the Columbine High School shooting and the Oklahoma City bombing, was charged with 24 counts of making a destructive device with intent to harm after her parents discovered two dozen pipe bombs in her bedroom, authorities said.
■ Jeff Stokely, a security technician, heard honking coming from his van parked outside a customer’s home in Gatlinburg, Tenn., and when he went to check on it, found two small bear cubs that apparently had crawled in through a passenger window and locked themselves inside.
■ Bradley Edward Vader, 66, of Independence, Mo., was sentenced to nine years and seven months in prison for distributing child pornography after admitting to accessing Russian websites and peer-to-peer programs to acquire videos to copy onto DVDs.
■ Danny Warden, who owns a drive-in theater in Bristol, Tenn., banned moviegoers from wearing costumes to see the recently released Joker because the film has sparked threatening online posts.
■ Donald Neely, 43, a homeless black man diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia who was led by a rope by two white officers on horseback in Galveston, Texas, said he hopes the image of him handcuffed and being led through the streets will prompt a broader conversation about how police handle mentally ill suspects.
■ Elizabeth Woolheater, 24, of Wichita, Kan., was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison on murder and child abuse charges stemming from the beating of her 2-year-old son after he refused to eat a hot dog.