In the news
Karen Searle, the Arizona State Fair livestock director, said a baby pygmy goat named GusGus was found tired, hungry but unhurt along a canal in Phoenix after reports of the goat’s theft created a stir on social media.
Le-Aan Adonis , a 20-year-old high school student in Hawston, South Africa, was arrested and fined $361 for stealing a bus that he and other students used to get to school in time to take a mathematics exam after the regular driver failed to show up.
Rose Marie Valdez of Houston is looking for Carol, the family’s 80-pound tortoise who was caught on a neighbor’s video wandering down the street after it escaped by digging under a backyard fence.
Timeka Coleman Jones, 28, of St. Ann, Mo., was charged with misdemeanor child abandonment after authorities said she left her 7-month-old daughter strapped into a car seat for about 20 minutes outside a casino in Alton, Ill., while she went inside to gamble.
Mike Rieker, 69, of Pinellas County, Fla., a Vietnam veteran, had to call his congressman to get his veterans check restored after the Department of Veterans Affairs suspended his benefits by declaring that he and six other Tampa Bay area veterans were dead, even though all are alive.
Jonna Capehart, 26, of Atlanta was cited for failure to stay in her lane, after striking a parked vehicle and after she was photographed in her Beetlejuice costume checking out the damage and then leaving the scene.
Julian Hernandez, 18, of Cleveland discovered his real name and was reunited with his mother when a discrepancy on a college application involving his Social Security number turned up information that he had been taken from his mother in Alabama when he was 5, police said.
Linda Weston, 55, of Philadelphia was sentenced to life in prison by a federal judge on 196 counts related to her confining mentally disabled adults in the basements of houses in Pennsylvania and other states so she could get their disability checks.
Nathan Bradley, a Georgia state trooper, treated four costumed children ages 6-13 to food, movies and a sleepover at his patrol post to give their grandmother time to get to Newborn, Ga., from Florida so she could tell the children their parents had been killed in an accident on Halloween.