Margery Tannenbaum, of Hauppauge, is accused of posting an ad that said in part, "I need a little affection." Authorities say she gave respondents the phone number for her daughter's rival, generating at least 22 harassing calls.

Tannenbaum was charged in May with aggravated harassment. She was freed without bail after her arraignment Thursday in Central Islip on that count and the new endangerment accusation.

She pleaded not guilty.

2 abandoned wolf pups rescued in N.M.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Wildlife agents rescued two Mexican gray wolf pups found abandoned in a New Mexico forest, but three others from the same litter were found dead, officials said Thursday.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said the mother gave birth to six pups in April, in what officials viewed as an achievement in a decade-long effort to reintroduce the wolf to the southern New Mexico-Arizona border region.

But two of the pups were found dead in June. The mother, the pack's alpha female, then moved one pup to a new den, and the remaining three were left behind because they couldn't be coaxed out of the den.

Officials with the endangered Mexican gray wolf reintroduction program tried to reunite one of the abandoned pups with the mother and the pack's alpha male but it was later found dead.

Duo arrested after kids found in shed

SEALY, Texas — A Texas couple was arrested after a state inspector found a half dozen children locked and unsupervised in a tool shed behind an unlicensed day care center, authorities said.

State officials said the children were surrounded by lawn equipment, gasoline and insecticide when they were found Wednesday morning. The children were not injured.

A child welfare inspector had gone there in response to a complaint that an illegal day care center was being operated at the home.

In all, there were 14 children, ranging in age from 3 months to 5 years, being cared for by the couple, Child Protective Services spokeswoman Gwen Carter said Thursday. They legally could care for only three children, she said.

Police found the remaining children hidden in the house and at another residence next door. Marietta Patek, 55, was charged with six counts of child endangerment.