In the news

• Marc Bennett, district attorney for Sedgwick County, Kan., ordered the release of an apologetic 82-year-old Texas woman who was detained for two hours at Wichita's airport for hitting a security officer in the arm after he confiscated a bottle of "hand product" from her carry-on bag.

• Robert Bibbs of Chicago, convicted of using text-message emojis to advise a cousin on how to kill an American vacationing in Indonesia in 2014, was sentenced to nine years in prison after telling the judge that he never expected his cousin and his cousin's girlfriend "to do something so horrific."

• Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, surrounded by fourth-graders who wore T-shirts depicting a slab of yellow cheese inside an outline of the state, signed a bill making cheese the state's official dairy product.

• Justin Casquejo, 19, of Weehawken, N.J., who climbed the World Trade Center's centerpiece tower in 2014, has been arrested again after he accessed the roof and hung off a ledge of the 52-story Paramount Tower, a luxury residential building in Manhattan, police said.

• Jim DeWees, sheriff of Carroll County, Md., said a deputy initially tried to talk a 9-year-old boy into dropping two kitchen knives that he was using to threaten his mother and officers but ended up using a stun gun on the child when he kept approaching officers with the weapons.

• Susanna Burhans, 47, a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier, was charged with aggravated cruelty to animals after investigators said she fed nail-laced meatballs to at least one dog along her route in New Hope, Ala.

• Norma Powell of Ocean City, N.J., who contracted an antibiotic-resistant infection after she was forced to undergo a catheterization to provide a urine sample in her 2012 drunken-driving arrest, is being paid $140,000 to settle her resulting lawsuit.

• Tedd Hoffman and his wife, Megg, of Kent, Conn., reported that a black bear broke into a paddock and attacked three of their four donkeys, killing and eating part of one, something wildlife officials cited as an example of problems related to the state's growing bear population.

• Anthious Boone, an elementary school principal in Philadelphia, needed eight stitches after being hit in the face with a brick when he tried to break up a fight between several students from his school and from a nearby charter school.

A Section on 06/03/2017

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