• Ariel Machan-Le Quire, 25, a passenger in a pickup stopped for running a stop sign in Punta Gorda, Fla., who was caught with 41 three-stripe turtles in her backpack, pulled a foot-long alligator from her yoga pants when asked by deputies if she had anything else stashed away, authorities said.
• Jimmy Dilworth and his twin brother, Tommy, stated that they have always been competitive in everything, which they said pushed them to the top two spots in their graduating class at Sumrall, Miss., High School: Jimmy as valedictorian and Tommy as salutatorian.
• Ed Launders, a lieutenant colonel in Britain's Coldstream Guards, said Guardsman Mathew Talbot, 22, killed by an elephant during an anti-poaching operation in Malawi, "was hugely proud of his work as a counter-poaching operator and tragically died doing great good."
• Emanuel Brandao, 37, whose service handgun was stolen from the glove box of his car during a rendezvous he had with two strippers at a hotel in Pawtucket, R.I., was fired from his job as a Boston police officer, a department spokesman said.
• Glen Casada, speaker of the Tennessee House, said he was embarrassed and was wrong to exchange lewd text messages about women with his former chief of staff three years ago, and he described the language as "locker room talk."
• Susan Parsons, a high school teacher and yearbook adviser in Wall, N.J., suspended after yearbook photos of two students were altered to remove President Donald Trump's name from their clothing, filed a lawsuit against school officials, saying she was made the scapegoat for the decision.
• Amber Holt, 24, arrested after she threw an egg that didn't break when it hit Prime Minister Scott Morrison on the head at a campaign event in Albury, Australia, said afterward that throwing an egg is "the most harmless thing you can do."
• Tommy Lee Hill, 20, of Meridian, Miss., accused of stealing a fire engine, driving it around town and then causing an estimated $50,000 in damage by hitting a utility pole, faces motor vehicle theft, drunken driving and other charges.
• Antonio Oswaldo Burgos, 48, of Portland, Ore., who met and married his wife in El Salvador, was sentenced to four months in prison after being convicted of trying to bribe a federal immigration officer to deport his wife as the couple went through a divorce.
A Section on 05/08/2019