• Brendan Wiley, director of the Topeka Zoo in Kansas, said a zookeeper who was mauled by a Sumatran tiger suffered lacerations and puncture wounds in her head, neck and back, and a city spokesman said the attack was witnessed by some zoo patrons.
• George Zimmerman, the ex-neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida who was acquitted on the grounds of self-defense in the shooting death of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin, has been banned from the dating app Tinder, which cited users' safety as a reason for removing Zimmerman's profile.
• Alvaro Mendez Flores of Richmond, Va., faces grand larceny charges after police said he backed his box truck up to the grease dumpster for a Burger King restaurant and used a hose to siphon used cooking oil, which can be used to make biodiesel fuel.
• Mary Elizabeth Moore, 34, was charged with child neglect after police in Oklahoma said she starved her children, ages 5 and 3, and fed them dog feces, with authorities saying the siblings are malnourished and have been placed on a special diet with nasal feeding tubes.
• Brandon Smirnoff, a former investigator with the Tallassee Police Department in Alabama, faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to slamming a handcuffed man to the ground multiple times and knocking his head into the side of a patrol vehicle.
• Iziah Hall, 5, of Wyoming, Mich., called 911 to ask for McDonald's while his grandmother was sleeping and got his request when officer Dan Patterson picked up food from the restaurant on his way to check on the boy's home.
• Dennis Steinman and his wife, Donna, a Kansas couple who share a love for pioneer history, are designing pioneer-style covered wagons that are equipped with king-size beds, electrical outlets and heating and cooling to accommodate people interested in "glamping," or glamour camping.
• Michelle Belleau and Ron Peterson are getting married at the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport baggage claim where they met 12 years ago, and Southwest Airlines says it's agreed to move arriving bags to another carousel to make way for the ceremony.
• Tony Grimes, 56, of Enterprise, Ala., faces an attempted-theft charge after police were told he listed a house for sale with an asking price of $168,000 even though the house belonged to someone else.
A Section on 04/21/2019