■UNITED STATES
Gray wolves re-endangered
A federal judge has restored endangered species protections for gray wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains, derailing plans by three states to hold public wolf hunts this fall. US District Judge Donald Molloy in Missoula granted a preliminary injunction late on Friday restoring the protections for the wolves in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. Molloy will eventually decide whether the injunction should be permanent. The region has an estimated 2,000 gray wolves. They were removed from the endangered species list in March, following a decade-long restoration effort.
■MEXICO
Cash found in diapers
A package of baby diapers yielded an unlikely load in Mexico on Friday, the defense ministry said: nearly half a million dollars in cash. Soldiers conducting a routine check “found in a tractor-trailer a packet of diapers containing US$490,300,” the ministry said in a statement. It said that the cash was likely a stash of narco-dollars that were destined for money-laundering, as the truck had come from Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa state in Mexico’s northwest, a region known for trafficking by major drug cartels. The driver of the truck was arrested.
■UNITED STATES
Soccer players subdue man
The FBI says an American Airlines flight on its way from Boston to Los Angeles was diverted to Oklahoma City after a passenger stripped nude, got dressed and then tried to open an emergency exit door. FBI spokesman Gary Johnson says members of the New England Revolution soccer team who were aboard the Friday afternoon flight helped subdue the man. The man was removed from the airplane by police in Oklahoma City and the Boeing 757 resumed its trip to Los Angeles.
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