• Zachary Nipper, 25, of Baltimore, who admitted throwing a rack of drying dishes at his girlfriend's mother, resulting in a knife getting stuck in the back of the woman's head, was sentenced in Westover, W.Va., to up to five years in prison.
• Gabriel Schroeder, 37, a Delta Air Lines pilot from Rosemont, Minn., who was arrested in July on a plane just as boarding started, has been charged with operating an aircraft while under the influence of alcohol after tests showed that his blood alcohol content was above the 0.04% legal limit for flying, according to a criminal complaint.
• Claudia Johnson, who lives in Bradford, Vt., where an anonymous flier was posted saying that displacement of Bigfoot was not why a bridge in town was closed, said she thinks there is a local Bigfoot because she's heard unexplained rustling behind her home.
• Ray Woolley, 96, a British World War II veteran, said he broke his own world record as the oldest scuba diver when he dived off Cyprus' southern coast to a depth of 137.8 feet for 48 minutes, adding that he aims to keep diving until he reaches 100.
• Angela Martinez said her 10-month-old son, Uriel, is one of at least 20 babies in Spain who have developed abnormal body hair after a pharmaceutical company mistakenly put a treatment for hair loss in packaging for a medication that treats stomach ailments.
• Bradley Mascho, 53, of Frederick, Md., was sentenced to 30 months in prison for his role in a Ponzi scheme in which investment adviser Dawn Bennett, 56, used investors' money to pay for astrological gems, cosmetic procedures and more than $800,000 for prayers by Hindu priests in India to ward off federal investigators.
• Kevin Hub, superintendent of a Georgetown, Ky., school district, said that within minutes of receiving a student tip, a high school resource officer was able to apprehend a 15-year-old pupil who had a loaded gun in his waistband.
• David Steven Bell, 51, a white man who pleaded guilty to assaulting two black girls, ages 11 and 13, at a North Carolina mall, was ordered to attend a racial justice workshop and get anger management counseling.
• Gregory Cody, 56, a former Nebraska police officer who, prosecutors said, used his position of authority to force a mentally ill 30-year-old woman into sex dozens of times, was sentenced to 12-16 years in prison.
A Section on 09/01/2019