• Brittany Alexus, 22, who was a visitor at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, was arrested after a new body scanner detected a foreign object inside her, leading police to then search her vehicle where they reported finding 58.3 grams of synthetic marijuana.
• Christal Ellard, coordinator for Animal Allies of Florida, said about 200 small pet pigs were collected from a Florida property, where the owner had "the best intentions" but the animals are very fertile and the pig situation quickly grew out of control.
• Phil Bryant, governor of Mississippi, has his original wedding ring back nearly three decades after he lost it, thanks to Jeff Maher, who found an engraved gold wedding band in a couch that he claimed from a roadside outside the house of first lady Deborah Bryant's cousin.
• Gregory Staffordsmith, a captain with the Lakewood, N.J., police, said a father was charged with neglect after his baby son crawled through an open front door and about 140 feet into a roadway before a motorist saw him and took him to safety.
• Mary Winchenbach, a Maine woman who uses moose droppings to make art and knickknacks, said she has gotten requests from all over the country for the unusual items after a video of her selling her wares at Maine's Common Ground Country Fair went viral.
• Jason Myers, the sheriff in Marion County, Ore., apologized for an arrest caught on video that ended with one of his deputies punching a homeless person 17 times, adding that his officer violated department use-of-force policy.
• Yu Wei Gong pleaded guilty to manslaughter and abuse of a corpse charges, saying he accidentally killed his mother during an argument in their Waikiki apartment in Honolulu, and police found her remains in numerous plastic trash bags in the freezer.
• Bridget Lambert of Amite, La., pleaded guilty to her role in holding her 22-year-old autistic relative captive, sometimes in a cage, forcing her to work for the family, perform sexual acts and eat her mother's cremated remains.
• Michael Kane, a spokesman for Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue in Florida, said an iguana wandered onto a power line and was electrocuted, starting a fire on the power pole and knocking out electricity to a nursing home, resulting in 20 patients being moved to a hospital.
A Section on 09/30/2018