TEXAS

A man and woman who never reported her toddler missing have been arrested by investigators trying to identify a girl being called "Baby Grace" whose body washed up on Galveston Bay in a storage bin.

Authorities are awaiting DNA test results but said they believed the girl is 2-year-old Riley Ann Sawyers of Spring.

The girl's 17-year-old mother and a 24-year-old man reportedly told relatives that the baby was taken in July by someone claiming to be an Ohio social worker, but never told police.

After police searched their Houston home, they were charged with injury to a child and tampering with evidence.

Riley's 20-year-old father said a he has a photo his daughter "and the picture of Baby Grace is so similar -- it kind of scares me."

WASHINGTON STATE

Police describe dragging death

A 45-year-old man scared a 17-year-old into driving off in a pickup truck with the teen unaware he was dragging another man, who later died, authorities said.

The victim, a 20-year-old university student, had frightened eight people at a campsite in the Newport area, north of Spokane, by making threats, including mentioning coming after them with an ax, police said. The older man tied a rope to the truck's trailer hitch and around the victim.

INDIANA

Rep. Carson says cancer is terminal

Six-term Democratic Rep. Julia Carson said in a statement that she has terminal lung cancer but did not say if she intends to hold onto her seat or seek a seventh term.

Carson, 69, said she had planned to return to Washington after recuperating from a leg infection, but that a doctor then found the cancer.

AND FINALLY . . .

Want to buy a bridge, cheap?

The Kickapoo River bridge in Wisconsin is in rough shape but smooth-talking village officials are looking for a buyer with a buck to spare.

Village officials in Soldier's Grove fear that a bridge built in 1910, which hasn't carried traffic in 31 years, will collapse and they want to get rid of it fast.

So they're offering to sell it for a dollar.

They hope high scrap prices help attract a buyer.

From Times Wire Reports