In the news

• Patrick Roger, a French chocolate sculptor, celebrated the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall by taking a hammer to a 440-pound chocolate replica outside his store in Paris and distributing chunks of the structure to applauding bystanders.

• Jim Girvan, the organizer of a group that provides Baby Trump balloons for protests, said a man with a knife charged at a balloon displayed during President Donald Trump's trip to Tuscaloosa, Ala., for a football game, leaving an 8-foot-long gash in the 20-foot-tall balloon and running away before he was caught by police officers.

• Carolyn Dyer, secretary of the Missouri Wild Horse League, said seven wild horses that were causing problems at a state park in Eminence, Mo., by damaging vehicles and opening building doors were rounded up and adopted by horse lovers after concerns that someone might be seriously injured.

• James Clayton Cholewinski-Boy, 32, was charged with abusive sexual contact after the Salt Lake City-bound flight he was on diverted to Tulsa for his arrest after a woman sitting next to him on the plane accused him of groping her, authorities said.

• Parrish Brown said he only realized he had been given a drink containing three bags of marijuana once he was "high as a kite" after he ordered a sweet tea with light ice and extra lemon at a fast-food restaurant in Hilton Head, S.C.

• Tommie Queen was sentenced to nine years in prison, convicted of felony dogfighting charges two years after law enforcement officers found more than 50 injured and starving dogs and the bones of dozens of deceased animals on his property in Adams County, Miss.

• Bradley Duwaine Spiers, 47, faces commercial burglary and other charges, accused by police of robbing a tool shed in Pearl River County, Miss., and then asking the unwitting shed owner to jump-start his car so he could flee the scene.

• Jared Thompson with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission said a man and his Great Dane were bitten by a female black bear, which had gotten into a fight with the dog while trying to defend its cub outside the man's home in Spruce Pine, N.C.

• Pete Piringer, spokesman for the Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service, said one person suffered minor injuries after a tractor-trailer carrying mangoes overturned on the Beltway in Maryland, spilling the fruit onto the road.

A Section on 11/10/2019

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