• Donna Keeler, a newspaper carrier in Augusta, Maine, returned a platinum ring with five diamonds that she found while on her route to David Sorenson, who stepped forward to claim it, saying it originally was his grandmother's but now belonged to his wife and had been missing for weeks.
• Amanda Schweicker, 28, of Sardinia, N.Y., was jailed after a deputy pulled her over for having no front license plate on her vehicle and noticed that the rear plate was made of cardboard and hand-painted to resemble the state's yellow and blue license plate.
• Samuel Azzinaro, a state representative from the beachfront town of Westerly, R.I., wants to designate the harbor seal as the state's official marine mammal, joining other Rhode Island symbols that include calamari as its official appetizer and the burying beetle as its official insect.
• Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime minister, who is soon to travel to the U.S. for a state visit, said his countrymen would appreciate it if Americans paid more attention to what's going on around the globe.
• Shauna Bennett, 42, of Lubbock, Texas, was charged with endangering a child after police found her 3-year-old daughter wandering in an apartment complex, repeatedly saying she was hungry and telling an officer, "I need a beer."
• John Ellis, 40, of Goodman, Mo., pleaded guilty to theft and property damage after police said he helped a couple and their two sons enter someone else's land in rural McDonald County to cut down 17 walnut trees and harvest the logs, valued at $8,500.
• Nicholas Delbrugge, 20, and his sister, Ashley Winters, 25, were arrested on theft charges after grabbing a money box containing about $200 from a Girl Scout selling cookies outside a Florida Wal-Mart, the Volusia County sheriff's office said.
• Abraham Garcia, 22, of Tucson, Ariz., was arrested as a suspect as he drove near where a woman had been forced at gunpoint to remove her 2-month-old child from a stroller and walk to a secluded path where she was sexually assaulted, police say.
• Aaron Stein, 36, of Pittsburgh pleaded guilty to robbery and other charges, with his attorney explaining that Stein made a fake bomb of phone wires, duct tape and a sex toy to rob a bank because he was desperate after learning that $9,000 he'd invested for his coming honeymoon was gone.
A Section on 03/05/2016