In the news
■ Larry Adams, 63, a Salvation Army volunteer, thwarted an attempted heist of his donation bucket outside a mall in Albany, Ga., reaching into the window of a pickup the thieves hopped into and pulling on the steering wheel until the driver stopped and handed the bucket back to him.
■ Dupree G.O.D., a rapper who was filmed shooting off a flamethrower while standing on an occupied New York City bus, surrendered to police and was charged with reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon, according to authorities.
■ Sara Diedrich, a spokeswoman for the University of Missouri, said the university’s Student Conduct Committee found that the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity chapter had violated campus policy and recommended that the chapter lose recognition for a minimum of three years.
■ Shawn Parcells, 41, of Leawood, Kan., reportedly a self-taught pathologist, has been indicted on 10 counts of federal wire fraud, accused of falsely leading people to believe they would receive an autopsy report from a licensed pathologist, according to federal prosecutors.
■ Jaythan Kendrick, 62, an Army veteran and former postal carrier from New York, was freed after spending more than 25 years in prison wrongly convicted of the fatal robbery of a 70-year-old woman, a conviction that Queens Justice Joseph Zayas called a “monumental” miscarriage of justice.
■ Harold Melton, the chief justice of Georgia, said “I never imagined this kind of honor,” after his alma mater, Auburn University, renamed its student center for Melton, who was the school’s first Black student government president.
■ Wesley Meadows, 20, from Gary, Ind., and David Farrell, 22, from Terre Haute, were arrested in a shooting at an off-campus party that killed an 18-yearold Indiana State University student and wounded two other people, according to authorities.
■ Andrew Vrba, 21, was sentenced in a Greene County, Mo., court to life in prison without parole for first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of a 17-year-old transgender girl whose burned remains were found three years ago in Cabool.
■ Harley Berry, 20, of Elizabethtown, Ky., was charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing of her friend during an argument in Memphis, according to Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich.