In the news

■ Fernando Garcia, a U.S. Postal Service mailman finishing up his route in Norwalk, Calif., overcame his panic and took on the role of good Samaritan when he heard a scream, discovered a man had cut his arm with a chain saw, then used his belt as a tourniquet and stayed with the man until an ambulance arrived.

■ Deja Stallings of Kansas City, Mo., a pregnant Black woman who was protesting and ended up on the ground with a police officer’s knee in her back during an arrest that sparked anger after it was captured on video, had an emergency procedure and gave birth two weeks early to a girl placed in intensive care.

■ Austin Quinn-Davidson, 40, an attorney who was elected to Alaska’s Assembly in 2018, will be the first woman and first openly gay person to serve as mayor of Anchorage, filling in after the incumbent’s resignation because of a relationship scandal.

■ Marilyn Mosby, Baltimore state’s attorney, and her husband, Nick Mosby, a Maryland lawmaker who is the Democratic nominee for Baltimore City Council president, have been hit with a $45,000 tax lien against their property for three years of unpaid federal taxes.

■ William Hubbard, dean of the University of South Carolina School of Law, issued an apology after forwarding an email that said 82% of his students had passed the bar exam but also had attachments noting their grades and listing the students who had failed.

■ Kerry Yochum of Porter, Okla., was charged with 42 counts of animal cruelty after Wagoner County sheriff’s deputies found 36 malnourished dogs inside maggot-infested cages and three horses, one cow, one bull and a heifer bound to different fixed objects throughout his property.