In the news
■ Frank Richardson and pastors at RCCG Amazing Grace Chapel made it possible for police in Middletown, Del., to hand out 15 “Caught You Being Good” citations, with each recipient receiving a free turkey.
■ Shea Dobson, mayor of Ocean Springs, Miss., ordered workers to raise the Mississippi state flag over City Hall after aldermen voted 6-1 to require that the flag be flown over city buildings even though its design includes a Confederate battle emblem.
■ Kenneth Lincoln, 90, of North Attleborough, Mass., will receive a meritorious-conduct medal from Morocco awarded 70 years after he and other U.S. sailors rushed to fight a fire that broke out among straw huts in Rabat in 1946.
■ Malachi Duncan, 32, who used another man’s identity to enroll at a community college in Hillsboro, Mo., where he got financial aid, housing and a workstudy job, faces nearly four years in prison and must pay $57,000 in restitution.
■ Alicia Fiordellisi, 19, was driving with her cat in her lap when she glanced down after feeling a wet spot on her pants and swerved into a school bus carrying 58 students, injuring several, said police in New Canada, Maine.
■ Sabein Burgess, 47, who spent nearly two decades in prison after being wrongfully convicted in 1995 of killing his girlfriend, was awarded $15 million by a federal jury in a lawsuit he filed against the Baltimore Police Department and two detectives who botched the investigation.
■ William Cowan and Ben Hancock, police officers in Gulf Shores, Ala., along with the department’s police dog Nitro, created a video widely seen on social media showing the dog sitting up and lying down in time with the two men doing pushups to the song “Eye of the Tiger.”
■ Nikki Cox-Musgrove, 29, of Pearl, Miss., will serve 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to possessing drugs without a prescription and child abuse by exposing her unborn child to opioids.
■ Bruce Homer, 61, angry over people running a stop sign at a busy intersection, told another driver that he ignored the sign and caused a wreck because police “won’t do anything until someone dies,” said sheriff’s deputies in Clermont, Fla.