• Carlos Bea, a federal appeals court judge in San Francisco, wrote that federal copyright laws don't extend to animals in a ruling rejecting a lawsuit filed to give an Indonesian crested macaque named Naruto control of a selfie the monkey took using a photographer's camera in 2011.
• Gilberto Escamilla, 53, of Brownsville, Texas, was sentenced to 50 years in prison after pleading guilty to stealing $1.2 million worth of fajitas over nine years from the county juvenile detention center where he worked.
• Jason Bentley, deputy police chief in Montoursville, Pa., drove a frail, 84-year-old man who called police for help because he had no way to visit his wife, who had had a medical emergency and was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Williamsport.
• Ed Pollard, assistant fire chief in Monmouth, Maine, described it as "not the way to get rid of a woodchuck" after an orchard employee's attempt to smoke out the varmint started a brush fire that burned almost 2 acres, adding that it was unclear if the woodchuck was harmed or scared off by the fire.
• Mark Meechan of Coatbridge, Scotland, who taught his girlfriend's pug to raise a paw in a salute as the dog stared at a video of a speech by Adolf Hitler, has been fined about $1,100 for a hate crime after authorities said the video Meechan posted online could be seen as promoting violence against Jews.
• Beck Owens, a sheriff's deputy who fell asleep while guarding a hospitalized inmate in Bristol, Tenn., was fired after the inmate escaped from his room, went to the parking lot and drove off in Owens' vehicle, Sheriff Wayne Anderson said.
• Steven Werbner, town manager of Tolland, Conn., said that after getting complaints from residents and commuters, he got the owner of the Electric Blue Cafe strip club to voluntarily replace a billboard to show less risque images than the two scantily clad dancers currently featured.
• Steven Hunter of Sidney, Ohio, accused of hitting a horse-drawn Amish buggy in a crash that killed a 23-year-old woman and critically hurt a man and two young children, has been jailed on charges including aggravated vehicular homicide.
• Ana Segovia, 31, of Houston, was arrested on aggravated assault charges after witnesses at a carwash told police that she revved her engine to the point where it caught fire as she sat inside a car with her three children and was overheard saying, "We're going to see Jesus."
A Section on 04/24/2018