• Evan Oshan, a New York attorney, said United Airlines and the family he represents -- whose French bulldog puppy died after a flight attendant insisted that the carrier containing the dog be stowed in an overhead bin for a 3½-hour flight -- have reached an "amicable settlement."
• Correill Bradley, 29, of Eunice, La., was arrested after she stole razor blades from a store, and minutes later at a restaurant claimed she bit into a razor blade in a sandwich, police said.
• Rita Ganim, 80, told the Gloucester Daily Times in Massachusetts that she'd forgotten about the bottle containing a message and her contact information that she dropped in 2000 into Ipswich Bay, until 11-year-old Dallas Goreham found the bottle earlier this month while searching for sea glass in Canada's Nova Scotia.
• Brandi Bella-Shaw, a visitor at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, said her family was in awe when a 22-year-old Western lowland gorilla named Moka emerged from behind a wall at the exhibit carrying her third baby -- still attached to Moka by its umbilical cord.
• Gavon Ramsay, 17, of Wadsworth, Ohio, faces murder charges in the strangulation of Margaret Douglas, 98, who lived in his neighborhood and was found dead in a closet at her home, authorities said.
• Robert Kujawa, 45, a white Bethlehem Township, Pa., resident, faces up to four years in prison for years of harassing a black family, including hanging Confederate flags in the windows of his home, hurling racial slurs against the woman and her son, and using a pellet gun to damage the family's outdoor lights and furniture.
• Matthew Barker, 37, was arrested after authorities in San Diego County, Calif., said he barged onto a school bus that had about a dozen children aboard and held a knife to the driver's head until some adults dragged him away.
• Anne Bruinooge, a 71-year-old retiree, completed her mission of doing a headstand in all 50 states, carrying out her last one outside the offices of the Ketchikan Daily News in Alaska.
• Bob Evans, battalion chief of the San Bernardino County, Calif., Fire Department, said he was "amazed" over the survival of a woman whose car plunged 700 feet off a road in the San Bernardino Mountains, and who was found after she managed to call for help and authorities used her phone to pinpoint her location.
A Section on 05/27/2018