• Jacinda Ardern, 37, New Zealand's prime minister, has given birth to a healthy daughter, becoming the second elected world leader to have a child while holding office, after former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who gave birth to a girl in 1990.
• Randy Leftwich took video of two police officers in Roanoke, Va., stopping traffic at a busy intersection long enough for a timber rattlesnake, a species protected under state law, to safely slither across the roadway.
• Gina Sanchez, a marina superintendent in Corpus Christi, Texas, said three parties are interested in buying the city's replica of the Nina, one of the three ships that Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World, even though it was damaged when it sank during Hurricane Harvey.
• Audrey Neilan said she and others are angry that no arrest was made after a truck driver didn't realize that he had hit a tree in Queens, N.Y., and that a large branch was lodged between the truck's cab and trailer, sticking out enough to damage at least a dozen cars as he drove past them.
• Steven Baker, 38, of Holly Hill, S.C., described by federal prosecutors as the "ringleader of an international syndicate of wildlife smugglers," pleaded guilty to smuggling after authorities intercepted packages containing 46 protected turtles in transit between the U.S. and China.
• Daniel Hughett, 35, was arrested in Anchorage, Alaska, on a drunken-driving charge after, police say, he drove a front-end loader in and out of traffic, then parked the vehicle in the middle of a street and walked away.
• Kevin Miller, 47, and his wife, Janice, 50, pleaded guilty to cashing government checks intended for a 79-year-old man who was found padlocked in a bedroom in the couple's Goodman, Mo., home, in a deal that lets them avoid jail but requires them to pay $5,000.
• Irakoze Ildephonse, 28, was high on drugs, police say, when he ran naked through a Concord, N.H., apartment complex banging on doors, choking a dog and throwing glass at police officers who subdued him using a stun gun.
• Nate Ver Hague, a wildlife police lieutenant, untangled a timber rattlesnake's tail from a car engine and another officer pulled the snake free after the car's owner in Hancock, N.Y., lifted the hood and found the snake curled up on the battery.
A Section on 06/22/2018