• Chris Cooper of Loris, S.C., said Tuxx, a 2-year-old pit-bull mix, barked and fussed at the door and then led him to his brother, Jarad Johnson, 17, who needed to be rescued from a 10-foot hole where he had been trapped for about five hours.
• Secoy Webb, 33, a St. Louis man who uses a wheelchair, was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm after, police said, he pulled out a gun and fatally shot Michael Johnson, 39, when Johnson began hitting Webb during an argument.
• Paul Maida Jr. of West Palm Beach, Fla., is back in jail after a judge decided he violated a no-contact order by clicking "like" on a Facebook photo posted by his ex-girlfriend, a witness in a driving-while-intoxicated manslaughter case pending against him.
• Christian Avanti, a barbershop owner in Dallas, said a nearly two-story tall black-and-white mural depicting Lee Harvey Oswald, who killed President John F. Kennedy in 1963, reflects the neighborhood's history even though other property owners complain that it hurts efforts to promote the area.
• Chris Calabrese called it the "craziest thing" he'd ever seen when a woman riding in a New York City subway car lost her grip on a package containing worms and crickets, resulting in crickets jumping on passengers and worms wriggling on the floor.
• Joseph Mahoney, a sergeant with the Mobile County, Ala., sheriff's office, said a high school girl in Semmes is facing a felony assault charge, accused of using a stun gun on a teacher who tried to break up a fight between the girl and another student.
• Kyle Cook, 31, of Lakeland, Fla., struck by lightning and bitten by a poisonous spider in the past four years, added a snakebite to the list when a venomous 5-foot Eastern diamondback rattler in his backyard lashed out, striking his ankle, as he tried to back away.
• Davie Dauzat, 23, of Bellmead, Texas, was arrested on a murder charge just hours after police did a home welfare check on him and his wife, the officers having returned in response to a relative's second call and discovering that Natasha Dauzat, 21, had been beheaded.
• Calvin Harvey of the Harris County, Texas, Tollway Authority said motorists should let experts deal with stray animals on major roadways after a video showed a woman trying to trap a cat as it darted around on a road buzzing with traffic.
A Section on 08/27/2016