In the news
■ Zhou Jinfeng, the leader of a Chinese activist group that released a rehabilitated pangolin, nicknamed Lijin, outside the city of Jinhau to celebrate new government protections for the nearly extinct armadillo-like animal, said the group plans to “release a lot more soon.”
■ Nathaniel Rowland was denied bail by a Columbia, S.C., judge as he faces charges of murder and kidnapping in the death of Samantha Josephson, a 21-year-old college student who authorities said got into Rowland’s car mistaking it for her Uber ride.
■ Philip Manshaus, 22, a Norwegian who killed his 17-year-old stepsister with a hunting rifle at their home in Baerum and then opened fire in an Oslo mosque, hitting no one, was found guilty and sentenced to 21 years in prison, the longest jail term under Norwegian law.
■ Charles Coleman, the interim police chief in Meridian, Miss., said Joey Lawn, a K-9 supervisor with the department, was fired and his supervisor demoted after it was determined that Lawn had used a racial slur against a black officer during a K-9 training session in 2018.
■ William Cable, 38, is facing eight felony counts of poisoning and other charges after authorities said he fed homeless people in Huntington Beach, Calif., food laced with oleoresin capsicum, which is twice as strong as police pepper spray, and recorded their reactions.
■ Carlos Campos , a spokesman for the Atlanta Police Department, said a woman found dead with her head stuck inside the metal door of a clothing donation bin and a tipped-over chair beside her appeared to have been trying to remove items from the container.
■ Harry Reid, 80, the former U.S. Senate majority leader from Nevada, said he feels “like a million bucks — whatever that’s like” now that his pancreatic cancer is in remission after he had an experimental treatment to help his immune system fight the disease.
■ Quintin Morris, 31, of Dellwood, Mo., was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of his half brother, Toreyon Bledsoe, after the two began arguing, then exchanged gunfire in their mother’s home, leaving Morris wounded, investigators said.
■ Bill Gabbert, the former fire management officer for Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota, said dry conditions and a wildfire risk in the region make the planned July 3 fireworks display at the monument “ill advised.”