In the news
■ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 86, the U.S. Supreme Court justice, was hospitalized in Baltimore after experiencing chills and fever, but is expected to be released today after her symptoms abated with intravenous antibiotics and fluids, the court said.
■ Paul Miller, an assistant professor at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, was inspired by his 4-yearold daughter’s love of Frozen when he instructed his students to run simulations about what would happen to weather conditions if the ocean froze, as depicted in the movie, and said the tiein “makes the homework and assignments more engaging.”
■ Israel Tellez-Nava, 35, of Las Vegas was arrested and faces drug charges after police conducting a traffic stop reported finding 43 pounds of methamphetamine in his car.
■ Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, said archaeologists have found hundreds of mummified animals in a vast necropolis near Saqqara, south of Cairo, including at least two lion cubs and several crocodiles, birds and cats.
■ Annette Cahill, 56, convicted of second-degree murder in Muscatine, Iowa, received a sentence of 50 years in prison for the 1992 beating death of her former boyfriend.
■ Geoffrey Graff, 41, of Milwaukee, who was living in an underground bunker for at least seven years, is facing charges of recklessly endangering safety and possession of a short-barreled shotgun after authorities reported finding two shotguns, a pistol, a long rifle and a bow with snowplow stakes for arrows in the bunker.
■ John Phillips of Cookeville, Tenn., faces an animal-cruelty charge, after authorities say he trapped a raccoon in a cage, beat it with a wrench, kicked it “like a football” and stabbed it to death.
■ Theodore Hoskins, 81, mayor of Berkeley, Mo., accused of submitting fraudulent absentee-voter applications in the run-up to the city’s municipal elections, faces four counts of committing an election offense and one forgery count.
■ Ed Jaster, senior vice president at Heritage Auctions, said a near-mint condition copy of Marvel Comics No. 1 from 1939 sold at auction in Dallas for $1.26 million and had changed owners only a handful of times since it was first bought at a Uniontown, Pa., newsstand by a mail carrier who made it a practice of buying the first issues of comic books and magazines.