In the news
■ John Hopkins, director of operations for Christ Church in Philadelphia, where Benjamin Franklin is buried, said members of a group that promotes anti-Semitism and racism placed a wreath bearing white supremacist slogans on Franklin’s tomb on the Fourth of July.
■ Kenneth Fischer, 41, a teacher in Maryland’s Carroll County who was accused of enticing boys to engage in sexually explicit conduct, including sending nude photos, was sentenced to 22 years in prison for producing child pornography.
■ Hilmary Moreno-Berrios, 29, faces carjacking and other charges after police in Greenville, S.C., said she stole an SUV after throwing a live, nonvenomous snake at the driver, then drove the vehicle into barricades set up for a pole-vaulting exhibition.
■ Terrance Jones Jr., 19, was shot in the leg by two off-duty sheriff’s deputies at a Wildwood, Fla., home when they responded to what authorities described as a fake ad offering jet skis for sale, with investigators saying Jones pulled out a gun and tried to rob the outof-uniform deputies when they arrived.
■ Alex Shadlow, 31, of Ackley, Iowa, pleaded guilty to kidnapping and other counts after prosecutors said he and his girlfriend, who pleaded guilty to child endangerment causing serious injury, locked Shadlow’s 8-year-old son in a space beneath the basement stairs of their home for at least nine hours a day with no food or access to a bathroom.
■ David Mohr, whose truck was stolen when he left it running to keep his dog Roleaux comfortable while he stepped into a Baton Rouge doughnut shop, is grieving after police found the dog dead inside the hot truck.
■ Jatwone London, 20, a former assistant diving coach at a high school in Portage, Ind., was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to having sex with two 15-year-old students and keeping partially nude photographs of each girl on his cellphone.
■ Phoenix Crowder and Riley Tulgetske were crowned king and queen of Michigan’s annual Wayne County Mud Day, in which children 12 or younger frolic in a large mud pit.
■ James Howie Hill of Carthage, Texas, said he was beachcombing on High Island when he discovered a good-fortune message in an algae-covered green bottle that had been tossed overboard last year by a Massachusetts couple sailing in the West Indies.