• Paul McCartney, a former Beatles member, helped in the campaign that saved Penka the cow after the bovine wandered from Bulgaria into neighboring Serbia without the proper veterinary approvals and faced death upon returning home.
• Christina Valdivia of Wildlife Management Services in St. Paul, Minn., said a raccoon that became an Internet sensation as it scaled the 25-story UBS Plaza has been set free after officials used cat food to lure the animal into a trap at the top of the tower.
• Khairy Simon, 27, pleaded guilty to murder in the death of his 3-year-old daughter after telling authorities that the girl's mother, Erika Finley, 29, hit the child with her fist and an extension cord while they were potty-training her, adding that he tried to stop Finley, but she was "much bigger" than him.
• Lamar Brown, serving time in a South Carolina prison for burglary, was found by the state Supreme Court to have been rightfully convicted in part because his cellphone was considered abandoned when he left it at the crime scene and a detective guessed the passcode as 1-2-3-4 instead of getting a warrant, which Brown's lawyers had argued was a violation of privacy.
• Dwayne Michael Lane, 48, of Beckley, W. Va., pleaded guilty to murder against his attorney's advice after being accused of dousing his girlfriend with gasoline and setting her on fire in front of her daughter and niece.
• Patricia Polastri protested newly planted palm trees in her Corpus Christi, Texas, neighborhood by giving a small bag of dead cockroaches to a city official during a City Council meeting, telling members that she's seen more unwanted insects since the trees were planted.
• Mara Meighan and her sister Jennifer Solis went into labor on the same day and gave birth at nearly the same time at a hospital in Columbus, Ga., nine years after having their first children around the same time.
• Clyde Magarelli, a sociology professor at William Paterson University in New Jersey, is being investigated by the school after a student filmed him telling a class that the moon landing was faked.
• Brenda Michelle Holt, 40, and Rickey Brunell Holt, 39, of Bunker, Mo., were charged with voluntary manslaughter after police said they beat a man to death when he attacked their 12-year-old son during a monster truck event.
A Section on 06/14/2018