In the news
■ Auston Allen, a lieutenant and recruiting coordinator for Georgia’s Department of Public Safety, says that although troopers still can’t have visible tattoos, and the neck or face remain forbidden, they can now wear long-sleeved shirts year-round to cover up designs on their lower arms.
■ Nyjah Huston, a fourtime world skateboarding champion, is among five people whom Southern California prosecutors have charged with organizing large indoor parties that were possible superspreader events amid the coronavirus pandemic.
■ Devonte Lemond Hammonds, 27, of Birmingham, Ala., pleaded guilty to access device fraud and wire fraud and faces up to 40 years in prison and $500,000 in fines after using someone else’s identity to raid a memorial fund for a slain officer.
■ Dimitris Lignadis, 56, who resigned as artistic director of Greece’s National Theater amid a #MeToo period in the country, was jailed in Athens as a court awaits his formal response to multiple charges of rape involving two men who were minors at the time of the alleged crimes.
■ Taylor Stoughton, 22, was charged with second-degree murder and police are searching for a second suspect in the death of Ariel Starcher, 21, whose body was found in a duffel bag spotted by a Missouri Transportation Department worker on a roadside 45 miles north of Kansas City.
■ Robert Maesta, assistant chief of the Eloy Fire District in Arizona, says a military parachutist was “extremely lucky” to escape without serious injury after missing an airport and dropping onto high-voltage power lines, dangling for several hours before being rescued by firefighters and utility crews.
■ Caleb Day of Georgia was handed two consecutive life sentences after being convicted of malice murder, felony murder and armed robbery in the killing of an Eldorado convenience store owner.
■ Radoslaw Ratajszczak, president of the Wroclaw Zoo in Poland, is celebrating the birth of a highly endangered marsupial known as a bear cuscus — actually not a bear at all — the fourth since the zoo obtained a pair confiscated from smugglers in their native Indonesia.
■ Phil Joy, a house mover in San Francisco, had to get permits from more than 15 city agencies before transporting, at a top speed of 1 mph, the two-story, six-bedroom Victorian that resided at 807 Franklin St. for 139 years just six blocks away to 635 Fulton St.