From today's report:

* Employees at a business on Tschache Lane employed fishing nets to try and catch a magpie that was flying around the store about 11:30 a.m.

* A man broke into a woman's home on West Beall Street through a bedroom window to retrieve a toolbox that he claimed was stolen from him several months ago. The woman said she was not aware that the toolbox had been in her bedroom closet.

* * A basketball coach in Ennis was threatened by a disgruntled parent.

* A dog chased a man around a neighborhood near John Deere Street running after the man's car.

* A hay bale was on fire in a field in front of a church on South 19th Avenue around 10:30 a.m.

* A repo man was told to follow his company's policy on returning personal property in vehicles they were repossessing after a deputy determined that a gun found in a car the man was taking was not stolen. The man also found a syringe needle in the console. He was told to destroy it.

* A woman couldn't stain her deck because three dogs were running loose in the area. She described them as a "beagle, a little white hairy thing and a medium white hairy thing."

* A woman said her neighbors were keeping an alligator, birds and a couple of dogs but were not taking care of them.