• Carey Davis, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection director at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, hailed the efforts of a beagle named Hardy after the dog found a 2-pound roasted pig's head, which was then confiscated from a passenger's luggage after a flight from Ecuador.
• Jeremy Caudill, whose Fright Fest haunted house in Springfield Township, Ohio, features actors getting physical in "risque scenes," said he was "shocked and appalled" to learn that two customers complained that actors had pushed them onto a mattress and simulated sexual assault.
• Boone Vandzura, chief ranger at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, said a 10-foot-by-6-foot sheet of metal that washed up on Ocracoke Island, N.C., was from a SpaceX rocket that had been launched over the Atlantic Ocean.
• Butch Brandford, 32, accused of fleeing in a minivan from Baltimore police and then firing several times at officers during the pursuit, eventually crashed and was arrested when he emerged from the vehicle holding a 3-year-old girl, authorities said.
• Darian Ward, a former press aide to Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, agreed to pretrial diversion in a plea deal on charges that she abused her position and misused city resources to promote personal projects, including a proposed reality show.
• Roberta Ostten of Denham Springs, La., was reunited with her dog, Jackson, which disappeared six years ago, after a Mississippi couple passing through the town recently picked up what they thought was a stray and took it to a veterinarian who found an identification chip.
• Jasiel Correia, the 26-year-old mayor of Fall River, Mass., charged with defrauding investors in a company he formed before his election, said he won't resign and blamed political opponents for his legal woes even as he's being evicted from his apartment.
• Gregory Boston, 56, of Hazelwood, Mo., accused of stabbing a 60-year-old woman 17 times, faces a first-degree murder charge after he was arrested by police who found him in the victim's vehicle with a knife and covered in blood, police said.
• Sharon Wehrly, sheriff of Nye County, Nev., said "I guess that's partying at 72," after Dennis Hof, who gained notoriety for an HBO series about his legal brothel, was found unconscious hours after his birthday bash at his Love Ranch near Las Vegas and later died.
A Section on 10/17/2018