In the news
■ Tamara Peterson of Southwest Ranches, Fla., said her German shepherd puppy, Cedar, was stolen from her backyard before being returned two years later when it was discovered nearly 2,000 miles away in rural Colorado and identified through its microchip.
■ Justin Jones, 35, of Baldwin City, Kan., was sentenced to four years in prison for involuntary manslaughter after his father-inlaw died while taking methadone to help Jones cheat on a drug test requiring urine samples, police said.
■ Keith Hill, 42, of Spanish Lake, Mo., faces second-degree murder, robbery and other charges after, police said, he beat his 63-year-old neighbor to death with a lamp and stole his car when the neighbor refused to give him money.
■ Joel Spears, 28, an inmate who authorities say escaped from a work-release center in Childersburg, Ala., before being recaptured a day later, had been serving a 15-year sentence for an escape charge.
■ Tom Corbin, a sculptor from Kansas City, Mo., was selected by Harry Truman’s family and board members of the Truman Library Institute to produce a statue of the former president for the National Statuary Hall Collection after Missouri lawmakers pushed for years to honor Truman in the collection.
■ Byron Donnell Green, 41, of Mount Airy, N.C., faces assault with a deadly weapon and other charges, authorities said, in the shooting of a 9-yearold boy and 7-year-old girl during a road rage incident involving Green and the children’s father.
■ Ashley Renee Resendiz, 22, and Carla Michelle Resendiz, 47, were arrested in South Texas after border patrol agents pulled over the white Ford Escape the women were driving and found 275 pounds of marijuana next to Ashley Resendiz’s infant son in the back seat, authorities said.
■ Ralph Northam, governor of Virginia, called for the removal of the Jefferson Davis Memorial Arch from Fort Monroe, where the first enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia 400 years ago, in a letter to the Fort Monroe Authority board of trustees, which unanimously voted to remove the structure, built in 1956.
■ Edward Guy Cornish, 48, of Elkview, W.Va., faces multiple charges in a fight with his brother after, authorities said, Cornish pointed a rifle at his brother and tried to stab him with a large knife before his brother’s wife cracked Cornish in the head with a piece of firewood, ending the fight.