In the news
■ Shackeem Frankson, a burly Florida prison guard, wiped away a tear as he turned to his longtime girlfriend, Sarah Horton, as they and seven other couples exchanged Valentine’s Day wedding vows outside a historic and exclusive Palm Beach mansion in a ceremony arranged by Palm Beach County Court Clerk Joseph Abruzzo.
■ Camilla, 74, the duchess of Cornwall, has tested positive for covid-19 four days after her husband, Prince Charles, was confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus despite both being triple-vaccinated, the couple’s spokesman said.
■ Craig Shubert, under fire for suggesting that allowing ice fishing shanties on a frozen city lake could lead to prostitution, resigned as mayor of Hudson, Ohio, after saying he was trying to “inject a bit of dry humor” on the issue.
■ David Sneed, 60, a convicted killer who fatally shot a man nearly 40 years ago during a botched robbery, was removed from Ohio’s death row under a new state law that prohibits the execution of people who had severe mental illness at the time of their crimes.
■ Mouaz Moustafa, a passenger on a flight to Washington, D.C., diverted to Kansas City, Mo., said a flight attendant bashed an unruly passenger in the head with a coffee pot as he was subdued during attempts to break into the cockpit and open an exit door.
■ Robin Folsom, 43, the former director of external affairs for Georgia’s Vocational Rehabilitation Agency who is accused of faking multiple pregnancies and using at least one of those ruses for paid time off, was charged with four felonies, prosecutors said.
■ Demeria Thomas, 38, a former guard at the St. Louis Justice Center, pleaded guilty to a federal civil-rights charge for letting two other detainees into another inmate’s cell and watching as they punched and kicked the victim, authorities said.
■ Michael Wilson, 51, believed to have cut his hands on razor wire when he escaped from a Mississippi prison, is still on the lam despite being taken to a hospital twice for bleeding he said was caused by a motorcycle accident, a prison spokesman said.
■ Molly Flynn, a seventh grader in Rye, N.H., whose class launched a small boat decorated with artwork and equipped with a tracking device into the Atlantic Ocean in October 2020, called it “really cool and surprising” that it had been found 462 days later by a sixth grader in Norway.