In the news

■ Chris Owen, a Forsyth County, N.C., sheriff’s deputy, pulled out his own credit card when a disabled woman handed him $8 and asked for help pumping some gas around 3 a.m. at a Winston-Salem convenience store, returning the cash and paying to fill the tank to make sure she could get to her destination.

■ Ashlee Brown, 18, who pleaded guilty to trespassing for jumping a guardrail at the Dakota Zoo in Bismarck, N.D., so she could take a selfie with a small ape known as a siamang, was fined $300 and placed on unsupervised probation for a year.

■ Pamela Bossier, manager of the Tiger Truck Stop in Grosse Tete, La., where a woman bit Caspar, the truck stop’s 600-pound camel, to free herself when it sat on her after she entered its pen to grab her unleashed dog, said a veterinarian prescribed the camel antibiotics as a precaution.

■ Paula Bergold, 60, of Peshtigo, Wis., accused of putting the body of her 89-year-old mother in a small plastic tub and hiding it in her basement, faces charges after police said she did not report the death for four months so she could live off her mother’s income.

■ Michael Grace, a lawyer and candidate for district attorney in Clarke County, Miss., who sent his secretary to court to let a judge know he was running late for a hearing, spent 24 hours in jail after he was found in contempt of court for failing to appear.

■ Jean Carlos Sanchez Rojas and Victor Fossi Grieco, both of Venezuela, were charged with smuggling about 230 pounds of gold worth about $5 million into a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., airport by hiding gold bars in the nose of a small airplane, authorities said.

■ Ray Persaud, 20, of Blaine, Minn., accused of calling in bomb threats targeting buildings where he was supposed to be attending class at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, was charged with making threats by means of fire and explosives, prosecutors said.

■ Kalina Gaines, 30, of Nashville, Tenn., was charged with assault after being recorded by students on a school bus helping her daughter hold down another student at a bus stop as they both assaulted the victim, police said.

■ Blake Gibbins, 27, of Lafayette, Colo., accused of throwing a cup of water on Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, at a restaurant in Fort Dodge, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of assaulting a member of Congress, prosecutors said.