• Hellmuth Kolb, 81, accused of approaching a woman and offering to buy her 8-year-old daughter for $200,000 at a Walmart in Port Orange, Fla., was charged with simple battery and false imprisonment after grabbing the girl and kissing her on the wrist, police said.
• Andrew Cuomo, New York's governor, signed a bill correcting a 50-year-old spelling mistake on the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, named for Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, officially adding a second 'Z' to the name of the country's longest suspension bridge, which links Brooklyn and Staten Island.
• Scott Shahan, 42, of Morgantown, W.Va., is denying using his 7-year-old daughter as a human shield when deputies and state troopers sought to save the screaming child who was with him on an untethered floating dock, a case that resulted in Shahan's arrest on domestic assault and other charges.
• Gary Gunckel, 50, an elementary school principal in Indianola, Okla., was placed on leave after he was charged with child abuse for spanking two elementary school students with a wooden paddle, leaving both boys bruised, investigators said.
• Preston Paris, 32, a teacher and coach at a high school in Johns Creek, Ga., accused of having sex with a 13-year-old girl he met on the dating app Tinder, was arrested on statutory-rape, child-molestation and other counts.
• Donna Gremminger, an animal-control officer in Norwich, Conn., spotted Lady, a 17-year-old dachshund that had lost most of its sight and hearing, in a city parking lot and, using its microchip, was able to find the owners, who said the dog disappeared five years ago.
• Michelle Curley, spokesman for the Cincinnati Zoo, said a man had to be treated for a minor injury when Kendi, a 1-year-old eastern black rhinoceros, bit the tip of the visitor's finger during a behind-the-scenes zoo tour.
• Fred Baggett, road manager in Oktibbeha County, Miss., said "I'm a big boy. I can handle it," after he was suspended for two days by county supervisors after complaints, including him telling one female employee she would have to "use the woods like the men" to take a toilet break.
• Marlon Coleman, 32, was arrested on an aggravated-arson charge after Louisiana's fire marshal said he used a lighter he had just stolen from a New Orleans convenience store to set a gas pump on fire.
A Section on 10/03/2018