IN THE NEWS: Pilot who crashed pleads guilty in insurance scam; grizzly bear attacks hunter; sheriff says 81-year-old drowned while trying to get groceries out of car after wreck

Sally DeLorean, the widow of automaker John DeLorean, lost her bid to claim royalties paid to a Texas company stemming from the Back to the Future movies, which featured a DeLorean car converted into a time machine, when a federal judge in New Jersey dismissed her lawsuit.

Theodore Wright III, a Texas pilot who survived a 2012 Gulf of Mexico crash and videotaped his time in the water, pleaded guilty to wire fraud in a scam to destroy planes, boats and cars to collect the insurance and was sentenced to more than five years in prison and ordered to repay nearly $1 million.

Eric Wilson, 48, of Marrero, La., who faces arson, home invasion and other counts, was shot and wounded by the father of a woman when he arrived at her home and tried to set it on fire, New Orleans police reported.

James Kester, 66, of Columbia, S.C., convicted of driving his car into a group of mourners at a cemetery because of a grudge he held against a state mental health worker, was sentenced to 80 years in prison by a judge who compared the 2017 attack to terrorist attacks on pedestrians in England and France.

Bob Legasa, 57, of Hayden, Idaho, underwent two surgeries in three days after his arm and face were mauled by a grizzly bear sow protecting her cub while he was bow hunting for elk north of Yellowstone National Park in Montana.

Patrick Muscaro, 47, of West Salem, Ohio, was arrested while under the influence after police said he struck the rear of an Amish horse-drawn buggy, injuring a couple and their five children who were thrown from the buggy on impact.

Zach Jacobsen, sheriff of Washington County, Mo., said that after Bryan Taylor crashed into a pond near Sullivan and was unable to drive out, the 81-year-old man drowned as he tried to get his groceries out of the back of the vehicle.

Carolyn Stark of Incline Village, Nev., an activist who opposes the trapping and killing of nuisance bears, has been ordered to stay away from bear biologist Heather Reich after Stark was accused of stalking and harassing Reich while she drove along a highway in a state vehicle.

Natalie Dale, spokesman for the Georgia Transportation Department, said the last of 89 cows that escaped when a livestock truck overturned on a busy interstate north of Atlanta more than two weeks ago was recaptured in a section of woods near the crash scene.

A Section on 10/16/2018

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