• Cherie Amoore, 32, befriended the mother of a newborn at a mall in King of Prussia, Pa., police said, but then walked off with the baby, resulting in her arrest four hours later on a kidnapping charge after Amoore's family saw alerts on social media and contacted authorities.
• Chris Bugbee, a carnivore biologist, is using Mayke, a Belgian Malinois originally trained to detect illegal drugs, to track El Jefe, the only known jaguar living in the United States, in the Santa Rita Mountains north of Tucson, Ariz..
• Michael Davis, 33, hid inside a clothes dryer as police conducted a drug raid at a house in Brookside, Ala., but was eventually caught when investigators heard Davis snoring and found him curled up asleep inside the appliance.
• James Vafeades, a police lieutenant in Rockville Centre, N.Y., said the term "hero" applies in the case of a 62-year-old woman now in a medically induced coma after she pushed a stroller holding a 9-month-old boy out of the way of an oncoming car just before it struck her.
• Carolina Rocha, a Mexican television journalist, was in Nogales, Ariz., doing a report on the U.S. Border Patrol when two suspected drug smugglers scaled the 20-foot-tall border fence from Mexico into the U.S. and then promptly climbed back after they realized they were being filmed.
• Paul LePage, the Republican governor of Maine, canceled the swearing-in ceremony for a newly elected Democratic state senator because a legislative committee turned down his nominee for a state commission, a spokesman for LePage said.
• Kim Kiefer, city manager of Juneau, Alaska, said that renaming the city to "UNO" for a day to help promote the card game also drew attention to the city as a tourist destination and garnered a $15,000 donation from toy-maker Mattel Inc. to the Juneau Community Foundation.
• Victoria Reid, 60, was charged with aggravated battery by Brevard County, Fla., sheriff's deputies, who said she was upset over suspicions of an extramarital affair when she shot her husband in the knee with a bullet that became lodged in his testicles.
• Michael Ertel, election supervisor in Seminole County, Fla., said he's set up a website so people can figure out whether election mailings are legitimate after a voter reported receiving a registration flier from a Washington-based advocacy group addressed to her dead cat.
A Section on 04/02/2016