In the news
■ Megan McArthur, a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station, said, “No one’s ever sent me a spaceship for my birthday before,” after SpaceX’s latest cargo ship delivered supplies that included ice cream and other treats for her 50th birthday.
■ James Shapiro, a Cook County, Ill., judge, without explanation reversed his Aug. 10 decision to bar Rebecca Firlit, a divorced mother from Chicago, from seeing her 11-year-old son because she isn’t vaccinated against covid-19 for medical reasons, with Firlit saying, “I’m going to see my son right now.”
■ Steve Sitzes, a police sergeant in Washington, Mo., said a 13-year-old boy experimenting with drugs that a 12-year-old friend found at a house during a sleepover died of an overdose, prompting the arrests of three adults, including the boy’s mother.
■ Tiffany Combest, 36, of Laurel, Miss., was indicted on charges she illegally received more than $34,000 in food benefits for multiple children who were no longer living with her, state investigators said.
■ Ismail Sabri Yaakob, 61, the new prime minister of Malaysia, which is struggling to control coronavirus infections, missed the swearing-in ceremony of his new government when he went into self-quarantine after coming into contact with someone infected with covid-19, his office said.
■ Bradley Goodin, 47, a former Bristow, Okla., police officer, avoided a life sentence but will serve 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to sexually abusing a child who was a tribal citizen, prosecutors said.
■ Travis Pritchard, 38, a former Clay County, Fla., sheriff’s deputy accused of sneaking into a home to have sex with a 15-yearold girl he met online, was sentenced to 35 years in federal prison for possessing images of an abuse victim, prosecutors said.
■ Raymand Vannieu-wenhoven, 84, convicted in a 1984 Wisconsin double-homicide case that had lain dormant for decades before investigators used a DNA sample to make an arrest, was sentenced to consecutive life sentences by a judge who described the killings as “depraved” and “unspeakable.”
■ Raymond Burke, 73, a Roman Catholic cardinal who had eschewed the coronavirus vaccines, didn’t provide any details but said on social media that he is beginning rehabilitation after contracting covid-19 and spending days on a ventilator at an undisclosed Wisconsin hospital.