In the news

■ Bob Gualtieri, sheriff of Pinellas County, Fla., the leader of a state commission investigating the high school shooting in Parkland where 17 people died, said teachers who undergo background checks and extensive training should have access to guns to stop shooters.

■ James Godwin, a Texas doctor with a passion for paleontology, is challenging a decision by federal investigators to seize a 70 millionyear-old Tyrannosaurus bataar dinosaur skull from his collection, saying they took too long to claim that it was illegally smuggled out of Mongolia.

■ Keelan Miller, 23, of Sedalia, Mo., was sentenced to 120 days of bootcamp-style incarceration for dumping the body of a 19-year-old woman he had met through an online dating app after he supplied her with alcohol and she died with a blood-alcohol content that was seven times higher than the state’s legal limit.

■ Charles Manrow, 82, who served more than 10 years in prison for bank robberies in four states, told investigators that he robbed a suburban Phoenix bank at gunpoint to raise money so he could begin smuggling marijuana.

■ Matthew Hedges, 31, a British doctoral student focusing on Middle Eastern studies, was sentenced to life in prison in the United Arab Emirates after being convicted of spying — a verdict that British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt called “unacceptable.”

■ Sandra Inman, a Tennessee woman accused of interfering with a legal bear hunt by catching and stealing a hunting dog, was briefly jailed for violating the state’s Hunter Protection Act and other counts, authorities said.

■ Niels Hoegel, 41, a nurse on trial in Oldenburg, Germany, accused of killing 100 patients at two hospitals a decade ago, apologized in court for each individual death, “regardless of whether I remember it or not.”

■ Marlette Fernando said her pet pigeon, Olive, which sports a rhinestone-studded vest, disappeared from her coop in north Phoenix on Nov. 7 and was returned home Tuesday when a friend spotted a social media post about the bird, which had been found and taken to a bird rescue center.