In the news
■ Tate Reeves, the governor of Mississippi, said that he, his wife, and their three daughters are now in isolation after the youngest, 8-year-old Maddie, who attends a private school in Jackson, tested positive for the coronavirus.
■ Bent Hoeie, Norway’s health minister, said the government has granted an exemption from its twoweek quarantine requirement for arriving visitors to allow representatives of the World Food Program, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, to attend the Dec. 10 award ceremony in Oslo.
■ Hal Taylor, secretary of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, is urging state residents to avoid unauthorized third-party websites that charge high rates — including $50 on one site — on top of the state’s $39 fee to renew driver’s licenses online, when the renewal can be paid for on a state website with a transaction fee of $2.75.
■ Alison Ikley-Freeman, 29, an Oklahoma state senator from Tulsa, accused of speeding and driving recklessly when her vehicle skidded off a rain-slicked road and crashed into a man’s disabled vehicle, killing him, faces a first-degree manslaughter charge, authorities said.
■ Sydney Barber of Lake Forest, Ill., a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., has been named brigade commander for the spring semester, becoming the first Black woman to assume the top role leading fellow midshipmen.
■ Javaid Perwaiz, a Chesapeake, Va., gynecologist accused of submitting false insurance claims after performing unnecessary surgeries, including hysterectomies and tubal ligations, was convicted on 52 fraud counts, prosecutors said.
■ Paul Hughes, a detective chief inspector in Britain, said a nurse, whose name has not been released, has been arrested and will face charges in the deaths of more than a dozen babies at a hospital south of Liverpool in 2015 and 2016.
■ Allen Crump, 22, faces eight felony counts of reckless aggravated assault as police in Nashville, Tenn., search for a second suspect after a gunfight in what investigators described as an argument over a dog left eight people wounded.
■ Steve Griebel, an Iowa wildlife officer, said he counted more than 200 dead ducks, including bluebills, mallards, teal and buffleheads, that were hit by cars in Woodbury County after the birds mistook wet pavement for wetlands as they migrated south.