• Randy Fontenot, police chief in Eunice, La., said two 17-year-old high school juniors were arrested, accused of mixing an all-purpose cleaning solution into their teacher's drink cup when she stepped out to get supplies, but he doesn't believe she drank enough of the chemical to affect her health.
• Elmer Alexander Andrade was sentenced to more than 14 years in prison after a Nebraska state trooper stopped him for a traffic violation and found 55 pounds of meth in his vehicle, with a subsequent search of an apartment turning up drug paraphernalia, sale ledgers and nearly $18,000.
• Michael Watkins, 64, a vascular surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, was charged with battery and driving under the influence after police were told that Watkins stopped his car, honked the horn, accelerated into a crosswalk, injuring three people, and then fled the scene.
• Bonnie Kimball, a cafeteria worker at a New Hampshire school who was fired after she gave a student a free lunch, said she isn't interested in having her job back after the company that supplies food to the school offered to rehire her.
• Walter Reed, 72, a former Louisiana prosecutor who was convicted three years ago on federal corruption charges, surrendered at the federal prison in Morgantown, W.Va., to begin a four-year term after a judge denied his request for another delay.
• Patrick Allen Spikes, 24, a former Walt Disney World employee with backstage access, faces burglary and grand theft charges after authorities in Orlando, Fla., said he stole about $14,000 worth of costumes and items from the Magic Kingdom and Epcot.
• Derek McIntosh, a police officer in North Sioux City, S.D., faces criminal charges after other officers reported that he had picked up stray cats and shot them in the cemetery instead of taking them to the humane society.
• Tom Weitzel, the police chief in Riverside, Ill., said "zombie raccoons" carrying the distemper virus, which causes them to stagger on their hind legs and bare their teeth, present serious dangers to family pets, and that officers will kill any infected raccoons.
• Thomas Wells, 33, of Pittsburgh will stand trial on criminal mischief and abuse of corpse charges after he flushed his grandparents' ashes down a toilet because his mother kicked him out of her home, a judge ruled.
A Section on 05/19/2019