In the news

■ Craig Alercia, 55, faces child endangerment counts after police in Easton, Pa., said he left three children, including a 10-year-old boy who had a jacket and two girls, ages 10 and 11, who didn’t, at a McDonald’s restaurant and told them to walk home in 14-degree weather. ■ Jeremy Lemons said a neighborhood flier for a “Christmas lingerie/pajama party” billed it as a 21st birthday celebration, a revelry that resulted in the arrests of nearly 70 people, mostly on drug possession charges, after police in Cartersville, Ga., responded to a report of shots fired. ■ Jeff Strayer, a police sergeant in Columbus, Ohio, said doctors successfully delivered the baby son of a woman who was 35 weeks pregnant when she was shot during a robbery at a house, a crime that resulted in the death of her and a man, and the wounding of a third person. ■ Jacob Pierce said he and other hikers on a trail in Berea, Ky., heard someone yelling for help and found an injured woman who had spent the night outside in below-freezing temperatures after falling about 50 feet. ■ Amber King, a 7-month-old baby, was found safe in her car seat on a rural road in north Harris County, Texas, after a thief jumped into the driver’s seat of the car and took off while the baby’s mother, Allison King, was in a convenience store in Humble. ■ David Mosher of East Windsor, Conn., married his 31-year-old wife, Heather, who wore a wedding gown and oxygen mask during the rite at a hospital where she was being treated for an aggressive form of breast cancer, just 18 hours before she died. ■ Amber Bridges, a former magistrate court employee in Indianapolis, filed a federal lawsuit claiming that she was wrongfully fired for creating a hostile work environment by installing air fresheners to deal with a co-worker’s chronic body odor. ■ Rachmiel Gallman, a Pittsburgh police officer, laughed as he watched a woman and her son wrestle and tickle each other in Gallman’s home but is now accused of false imprisonment after he put the woman in handcuffs and leg shackles when she wouldn’t stop poking him in the belly, officials said.