• Gayle Benson, owner of the NFL's New Orleans Saints and NBA's New Orleans Pelicans, paid off nearly $100,000 worth of customers' layaway orders at a New Orleans Walmart, New Orleans news outlets reported.
• Adam Rose, an officer with the East Ridge Police Department in Tennessee, was fired for having a sexual relationship with an 18-year-old high school student, but an internal affairs investigation determined he had not violated any policies or criminal laws.
• Alaa Hamed, an Indiana state trooper, moved an SUV that was pinning a woman to a toll booth after she tried to retrieve a debit card, then performed CPR until paramedics arrived and used a defibrillator to resuscitate her.
• Gregory Stanton, 49, faces up to three years in prison after pleading guilty to tampering with consumer products after he was seen on video he posted online urinating on a Kellogg's cereal conveyor belt at a Memphis plant.
• Michael Freeman, an Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality investigator, says the agency is trying to identify the contents of 16 55-gallon drums that were dropped off in a field near an Oklahoma City industrial area.
• Jimmy Rane and Cathy Randall, co-chairmen of Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey's inauguration, says the "Keep Alabama Growing" inauguration theme underscores Ivey's campaign promises on job growth and education.
• Aaron Urbanski, 31, was arrested on trespassing charges in Cleburne, Texas, after, authorities said, he protested at a church's breakfast with Santa event, telling children Santa Claus is not real.
• Matthew Sink, minister of Pinedale Christian Church in Winston-Salem, N.C., said day care employees were on the playground with 20 children when six of them slipped into a door of the church without being seen, went down a hall and left through the church's front door, with five of them wandering toward a major road, police said.
• Jesi Pitre and her sister Remi returned to their home in Apopka, Fla., seven months after being born conjoined at the belly, after a series of surgeries at a Gainesville, Fla., hospital successfully separated the girls, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
• Sedarius Dennis, 31, faces aggravated assault and weapons charges after, police said, he shot two men inside a downtown Atlanta hotel connected to CNN's headquarters and was captured by CNN security personnel.
A Section on 12/10/2018