In the news

■ Alyssa Brenteson of Akhiok, Alaska, who parked her car for two days in an airport parking lot, returned to find a caved-in roof, a broken window, ripped seats, and muddy prints and fur on the vehicle, damage officials blamed on a bear.

■ Christin Burford, director of the C.A.R.E. Foundation, called it a Thanksgiving miracle after workers at a Florida wildlife facility found that a 50-pound bear that had been stuck in a tree and hanging precariously over a tiger enclosure for five days had safely made its way out of the tree.

■ Moby Solangi, a doctor at the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport, Miss., said two endangered sea turtles were released after one was treated for pneumonia and the other had throat surgery because it had swallowed a fisherman’s hook.

■ Pete Piringer, a spokesman for the Montgomery County Fire Department in Maryland, said authorities aren’t sure what caused a 3-foot-long piece of steel to fly into a woman’s windshield as she was driving on the Capital Beltway, adding that she received minor injuries.

■ Shaun Edward Necaise, 38, is the second person arrested in Gautier, Miss., on charges of motor vehicle theft and two counts of grand larceny in the theft of a school maintenance truck and trailer, along with 66 batteries from school buses.

■ Samantha Elhassani, 33, whose late husband was a member of the Islamic State in Syria, pleaded guilty to providing financial support to the militant group after prosecutors said the Indiana woman made three trips to Hong Kong carrying more than $30,000 in cash and gold intended for the group.