• Mikaela Kellner, an off-duty Swedish police officer sunbathing in a Stockholm park, was in a bikini but still chased down and pinned to the ground a man suspected of stealing a friend's cellphone.
• John Sesselman, a mounted police officer, and his horse, King Tut, are getting attention in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., after a TV station posted a picture online of the two waiting in line at a doughnut shop drive-thru to order a cup of coffee for the officer and a glazed treat for the horse.
• Henry Love, 51, of Deltona, Fla., faces a child-abuse charge after authorities said he threw an 11-year-old boy he was taking care of into an algae- and bug-infested swimming pool because God told him to baptize the child, and the boy ended up with eye and ear infections.
• Rae Wooten, the coroner in Charleston, S.C., said it appears that a 90-year-old woman who disappeared from a nursing home and was found dead in a pond was killed by an alligator.
• Patrick Hanna, a judge in Lafayette, La., in denying Iberia Parish Sheriff Louis Ackal's request to be allowed to carry a gun while he awaits trial on allegations that he directed officers to assault prisoners, said he was treating Ackal just as he would any other felony defendant.
• Cesar "Ernie" Gutierrez, 75, of North Hollywood, Calif., known for his custom-made pool cues, is accused of aiding and abetting illegal exportation after prosecutors say he sold two people 41 sections of cues that contained ivory from protected African elephants.
• Bradley Jones, whose fiancee is in prison until 2026, says his constitutional right to marry is being violated and he is suing the county clerk in Shelby County, Ky., for refusing to issue him a marriage license on the grounds that state law requires both applicants to apply in person.
• Abderahim Salhi, a veterinarian at Morocco's Zoological Garden of Rabat, said zoo personnel don't understand why an elephant picked up a stone and threw it at visitors, striking a 7-year-old girl in the head, killing her.
• Jeff Nichols of the Maine Department of Marine Resources said the 60- to 80-year-old, 15-pound lobster that was saved from a Florida restaurant and was being sent to a Maine aquarium was dead on arrival after its one-day transit turned into almost a week.
A Section on 07/30/2016