• Mac Hohenberger, the fire chief in Argyle, Texas, arrived home in time to save his family's two dogs as flames and smoke consumed his house in Copper Canyon, and said he now has a new understanding of the ordeal people go through after such a personal disaster.
• Quincy Peels, 31, of Jackson, Miss., surrendered to authorities Wednesday and faces one count of felony child abandonment and two counts of felony desertion after sheriff's deputies received a report that someone had abandoned three children, ages 3, 7 and 10, on the side of a highway.
• Jeremy Chiapetta, executive director of a charter school in Cumberland, R.I., said three teachers trained by Teach for America resigned after being caught exchanging disparaging and profanity-laden chat messages about students.
• Imran Patel, 26, was sentenced by a judge in Auckland, New Zealand, to more than three years in prison for distributing links to Islamic militant videos depicting prisoners being shot and beheaded in the first case of its kind in the South Pacific nation.
• Craig Apple, sheriff of Albany County, N.Y., said a bobcat attacked a woman who was playing with a friend's dog in a backyard and bit the woman's husband before the husband helped pin the feline down with a chair so the homeowner could shoot and kill it.
• Reynaldo Tirado, 22, who prosecutors say pulled a knife and demanded money from off-duty state Trooper William Hall outside a doughnut shop in Lowell, Mass., was arrested on an assault charge, his second arrest in three days.
• Kiara Wilson was found hiding in a trash can and arrested on a robbery charge after using a fake gun to hold up a doughnut shop and then escaping on a bicycle pedaled by Daniel Henderson, who also was arrested, said police in Willimantic, Conn.
• Roger Walters, the fire chief in Mehoopany, Pa., said he's amazed that there were no deaths or life-threatening injuries after an explosion tore apart a family's home, trapping two adults under debris and scattering pieces of the building as far as 150 feet away.
• Louie Lee, 11, of Mesa, Colo., took his place on a wooden throne next to his "queen" Haley Grensko, 13, of Pittsburgh, after the two took top honors at the 93rd National Marbles Championship in Wildwood, N.J., which come with $2,000 college scholarships for each.
A Section on 06/24/2016