In the news
■ Charles Smith, a judge in Meridian, Miss., said he’s “looking forward to getting back to work” and hopes doctors will clear him for a return to the bench in a couple of weeks after he was shot in the hip by an unknown assailant as Smith was arriving at the courthouse.
■ Tarique Peters, 23, a New York man on vacation in Honolulu, was arrested over a violation of Hawaii’s 14-day traveler quarantine after he posted on Instagram photos of himself sunbathing and carrying a surfboard, according to a news release from the Hawaii covid-19 Joint Information Center.
■ Mike Tregre, the sheriff of St. John the Baptist Parish, La., said police are looking for Aaron Dun, 33, who is accused in the kidnapping of a 73-year-old LaPlace woman and in eluding police in two vehicle chases that both ended in wrecks.
■ Matt Shea, a Washington lawmaker who was removed from the state’s House Republican Caucus after a report from a private investigation agency called his support for a militia’s armed standoff with federal agents an “act of domestic terrorism,” will not seek reelection.
■ Pasquale Salas, 26, a former deputy with the Matagorda County, Texas, sheriff’s office, pleaded guilty to coercing a young girl from Massachusetts, whom he met while playing an online game, into sending him hundreds of sexually explicit videos and images of herself, prosecutors said.
■ Lou Uridel, the owner of Metroflex Gym in Oceanside, Calif., who was charged with a misdemeanor after authorities said he violated a stay-at-home order by opening the gym, has vowed to keep his business open.
■ Matthew Brummett, 37, and Charles Prichard, 47, both police officers in Kansas City, Mo., were indicted by a grand jury in an assault, which was captured on video, of a transgender woman who has since died after being shot in an unrelated incident.
■ Bob Johnson, the sheriff of Santa Rosa County, Fla., said a Pace woman was charged in the abuse of her 14-year-old adopted son, which included beating the boy with a dog chain, cutting his arms and head and chipping his teeth with pliers.
■ Jeff Reaves, senior trooper with the Marine Patrol Division of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, said the two occupants of a seaplane were able to escape and were rescued after the aircraft crashed and flipped upside down in Lake Guntersville.