In the news
■ Greg Sparacio, a lieutenant for Cartersville, Ga., police, said two men caught walking out of a grocery store north of Atlanta with backpacks filled with baby formula had 662 more cans, worth about $26,000, inside their car.
■ Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, president of Mexico, claimed that his country is “safer than the United States” and that travel warnings by the State Department are part of a campaign against his country by “conservative politicians in the United States who do not want the transformation of our country to continue.”
■ Bassem Awadallah, a dual Jordanian-American citizen serving 15 years in prison for his role in a plot against the Jordanian monarchy, was hospitalized and “remains in danger as his health declines daily” amid a hunger strike, said Michael Sullivan, Awadallah’s attorney.
■ Roy McGrath, the onetime aide to former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan facing federal fraud and embezzlement charges, had his trial postponed after a judge issued an arrest warrant when he failed to appear in court, said McGrath’s attorney, Joseph Murtha.
■ Artemio Maldonado, 18, and Azucena Sanchez, 20, were arrested and charged after two men and two women were found fatally shot in a Dallas apartment where an infant was found unharmed, police said.
■ Brian Sullivan, a retired Federal Aviation Administration special agent, said an attack on a flight attendant during a United Airlines flight in which the suspect was videoed moving toward the cockpit “emphasizes the need to have that extra barrier for the cockpit on every commercial aircraft.”
■ Kenneth Simpson, a 35-year-old accused of killing one Hermann, Mo., police officer and injuring another in a shooting, surrendered to police near the convenience store where the shooting occurred, authorities said.
■ Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greece’s prime minister, said after talks with Cyprus’ president, Nikos Christodoulides, that the Feb. 6 earthquake that killed at least 50,000 people in Turkey and Syria “brought our two peoples closer together on a human level.”
■ Sayfullo Saipov, 35, who raced a truck along a New York City bike path in 2017, killing eight people and injuring others, was sentenced to life imprisonment at a federal facility in Florence, Colo., after jurors were unable to reach the unanimous verdict required for the death penalty.