• Emelia Holden, 21, a waitress in Savannah, Ga., said she felt a hand grope her from behind and decided "Nope, that's not going to happen," just before she turned, grabbed and threw a 31-year-old man against a wall, berating him until police arrived to arrest him on a sexual battery charge.
• Jessica Waters, spokesman for Ocean City, Md., said a Pennsylvania woman was hospitalized after she was impaled in the chest by the shaft of a beach umbrella that was lifted into the air by a freak gust of wind.
• Sim Gill, district attorney for Salt Lake County, Utah, said no charges will be filed against a woman who left a loaded pistol on a baby changing table in a public restroom because the woman didn't consciously intend to put people in danger by leaving the weapon behind.
• Felicia Marie-Nicole Smith, 25, of Natchitoches, La., who initially reported that her 6-month-old son had been kidnapped, was arrested on a first-degree murder charge when police, investigating a fire near some railroad tracks, found the badly burned child who later died at a hospital.
• Tracie Hoffecker of Prospect Park, Pa., called her cousin, a Philadelphia firefighter, to capture a 2- to 3-foot-long alligator believed to be an illegally dumped pet when she spotted the gator just a few feet away as she looked at a turtle in her backyard.
• David Boren, 48, a former volunteer fire department chief in Farmington, Miss., will repay more than $103,000 and serve five years of probation after pleading guilty to embezzling department funds from 2010 through 2016, prosecutors said.
• James Kennedy Jr., a U.S. attorney in Buffalo, N.Y., said a man was arrested as he tried to drive off in an older Mercury Mariner SUV -- later found to contain 65 pounds of cocaine -- that was on a car carrier that had just delivered a shipment of new Toyotas to an auto dealership.
• Mason Andrews, who is 18 years, 4 months old, took off Sunday from the regional airport in Monroe, La., in a bid to become the youngest pilot to circumnavigate the globe in a series of flights that should take between 30 and 40 days to complete.
• Holly Spaman, a hiker from Yakima, Wash., successfully reunited a distraught 7-year-old girl with her stuffed lion lost on a remote Oregon hiking trail, posting a photo of the beige and yellow toy online and asking for help when she realized she didn't have the child's name or address.
A Section on 07/24/2018