In the news
■ Ronald Vaughn, 34, a St. Louis police officer, faces a forgery charge after authorities said he emailed a fake doctors note, with some words “blocked out in white, as if they had been pasted over an old note,” to the department saying he had to quarantine for two weeks.
■ Henrik Evertsson and Linus Andersson, two Swedish men who were part of a film team documenting the Baltic Sea wreck of the M/S Estonia, a ferry that sank in 1994 killing 852 people, were acquitted of desecrating the shipwreck, now considered a graveyard, by filming it using an underwater camera.
■ William West, 47, of Calera, Ala., convicted of manslaughter in the death of his 42-year-old wife, Kathleen, a model who posted racy photos online, was sentenced to 16 years in prison by a judge who said the man never took responsibility for the death.
■ Dion Merrick, a sanitation worker in New Iberia, La., who said he recognized a gray sedan parked in a field from a state police alert, notified officers who rescued a missing 10-yearold girl who was last seen getting into a car with a registered sex offender.
■ Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, 67, the president of Mexico, resumed his daily news conferences following a two-week break after being treated for covid-19, saying he “came through well, healthy,” but vowed not to wear a mask or require Mexicans to use them.
■ Nicholas August, 39, of Rockford, Ill., convicted of sexually assaulting a woman he took hostage at gunpoint last year during a bank robbery that led to a seven-hour standoff with police, was sentenced to 30 years in prison, prosecutors said.
■ Harold Seidenfaden, 78, accused of murdering his 60-year-old wife after sheriff’s deputies found the woman dead inside the recreational vehicle where the couple lived near Perry, Ga., was charged with murder, investigators said.
■ Jason Musgrove, 41, a U.S. Army major assigned to the Army Cyber Command at Fort Gordon, Ga., in Augusta, was sentenced to serve 30 years in federal prison for producing child pornography, prosecutors said.
■ Recep Mirzan, 63, a retired Turkish postman, who found Garip, a female swan, 37 years ago with a broken wing, says the two “never separated” after it healed, with the swan now accompanying him on evening walks and following him as he does chores at his farm in the Karaagac region, bordering Greece.