• Keith King, owner of a North Carolina-based BMX bicycle stunt company, was awarded $8.8 million in compensatory and punitive damages by the judge who heard the alienation-of-affection lawsuit he filed against a Texas man who had an affair with his wife.
• Courtney Brown and Kristee Wilson, two Roswell, Ga., police officers who used a cellphone app that simulated a coin toss to decide whether to arrest a woman during a traffic stop, have been fired, a city spokesman said.
• Dan Pojanamat, a police sergeant in Palo Alto, Calif., said it's unclear whether a 17-year-old, accused of breaking into a couple's home shortly after midnight, was seeking Wi-Fi access when he woke them up to ask them for the password.
• Shakira Stover, 35, an American tourist who lives in Spain, called for help when she was locked inside New York's historic Castle Williams fortress and prison after someone shut and padlocked its doors, forcing her to wait about an hour for a park ranger to arrive to unlock the door.
• Thomas Busch, 37, faces 23 charges, including 10 felonies, after Denver police said he led them on a slow-speed chase through the city while driving a stolen city-owned tractor that stopped when it struck a police car, and then he bit and choked a police dog as he was apprehended.
• Elizabeth Hann, 40, treasurer of Mac's Mission, a state-licensed animal rescue group in Cape Girardeau, Mo., is charged with embezzling more than $120,000 from the nonprofit, which helps find homes for dogs with special needs, police said.
• Zachary McCleary, 30, a paramedic who worked for three different agencies in Barton County, Mo., pleaded guilty to stealing opioids and refilling the empty vials with saline solution that was given to at least 18 patients, prosecutors said.
• Dylan McDermitt, a pawnshop manager in Somerville, Mass., said anyone selling a violin will be asked to play it to reassure employees that they own the instruments after the shop bought a violin for $50 that turned out to be a stolen Ferdinando Gagliano violin worth $250,000.
• Charles Hager, 74, angry that his cellphone was broken and not getting a response when he demanded that a closed wireless store at an upscale mall in Raleigh, N.C., reopen so he could get it fixed, rammed his car through the glass storefront, police said.
A Section on 07/28/2018