In the news
■ Mike Pence, the vice president, along with others returning to Washington on Air Force Two from a campaign event in Gilford, N.H., were not injured after the plane struck a bird during takeoff and made an emergency landing at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport.
■ Shad White, Mississippi’s state auditor, said Macon clerk Yolanda Atkins has been arrested on embezzlement charges after investigators from White’s office found more than $2,000 missing in fines and fees paid to the court by taxpayers.
■ Patrick Lampi, the executive director of the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage, said a brown bear that broke into the zoo killed Ceasar, a 16-year-old alpaca, but no other animals were hurt, and wildlife officials killed the bear the next day.
■ Tika Ram Gurung of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, said the death of Ang Rita, a Sherpa who was the first to ever climb Mount Everest 10 times, is an “irreplaceable loss to not just Nepal but also for the entire mountaineering community.”
■ Benjamin Jenkins, 25, a Georgian described by the U.S. Justice Department as a “prolific sextornist,” was sentenced to 40 years in prison for coercing more than 100 girls between ages 13 and 16 to send him explicit photos and videos.
■ Christopher Aguanno, a Monroe County, Fla., sheriff’s deputy, said Margot Duke-Eddy, a pregnant woman, jumped off a boat “without hesitation” to pull her husband to safety after he was attacked by a shark during a family snorkeling trip in the Florida Keys.
■ Bruno Diaz, a biologist with the Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute in Galicia, Spain, said a pod of orca whales were likely playing when they damaged several yachts, prompting Spain’s transport ministry to temporarily ban sailing of smaller boats in the area.
■ Norbert Logsdon Jr., 67, of Orange Park, Fla., who was participating in a rally for President Donald Trump and got into an argument with a motorist, is charged with child abuse after he a stuck a flagpole into the car’s rear window and struck a 12-year-old girl in the face, according to an arrest report.
■ Abdul Kallon, a federal judge in Alabama, dismissed a lawsuit that sought to force the city of Decatur to abide by the results of an election in which a majority of voters had supported a city manager form of government, finding that the change would violate the Federal Voting Rights Act.