In the news
■ Joseph Abitabile, 78, was pulled to safety by bystanders as rescue workers freed his unconscious 76-year-old wife, Delores, after their car, struck by another vehicle, careened into a Long Island, N.Y., canal near Lindenhurst and began to sink.
■ Michael Brown-Palsgrove, a curator at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., said the zoo’s 8-weekold giant panda cub isn’t nursing much but is still “packing on the pounds” as he spends time sleeping and learning to crawl under the watchful eye of his mother, Mei Xiang.
■ Lindsay Clowes and Alex Leckie, a Canadian couple, dealt with the coronavirus pandemic-closed U.S.-Canadian border by saying their wedding vows on a wharf in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, so their grandparents and other relatives from Calais, Maine, could watch from a lobster boat in the St. Croix River.
■ Emily Edson, 39, a former student teacher at a middle school in Lamar, Mo., who pleaded guilty to sending nude photographs of herself to three 13-yearold male students, was sentenced to four years in prison, prosecutors said.
■ Trinity Rose-Graham and Sasha Stukov-Taylor, both 18, who were pulled over for speeding in Onslow County, N.C., face theft and other charges after state troopers found 66 stolen political signs supporting the reelection of President Donald Trump in their vehicle.
■ Crystal Myrie, a U.S. Postal Service carrier in Miami-Dade County, Fla., was arrested, accused of stealing a mail-in ballot, 10 gift cards and four prepaid debit cards after investigators found satchels containing undelivered mail in her car.
■ Joshua Wills, 31, of Bremerton, Wash., was sentenced to time served after being in federal custody for 23 months, accused of assaulting Secret Service agents who stopped him in West Virginia on reports that he was traveling to see President Donald Trump while carrying a katana sword.
■ Peter Madsen, a Danish man convicted of torturing and killing a Swedish journalist on his homemade submarine, was recaptured after he briefly escaped from a prison near Copenhagen where he’s serving a life sentence.
■ Adam Einck, a Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Department spokesman, said a $1,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the conviction of whoever killed a 12½-foot alligator with a crossbow and then abandoned the carcass in Bayou Manchac in Ascension Parish.