In the news
■ Raynaldo Riviera Ortiz Jr., a 60-year-old anesthesiologist from Dallas, was convicted for injecting a nerve-blocking agent and other drugs into bags of intravenous fluid at the surgical center he worked at, leading to the death of a co-worker and several cardiac emergencies for other patients, according to prosecutors.
■ Edward Caban, the police commissioner of New York City, said the two officers involved in the 2019 fatal shooting of 32-year-old Kawaski Trawick will not face internal discipline.
■ Maxwell Anderson ,a 33-year-old Milwaukee man, was charged Friday in the slaying of a woman whose leg was found separate from her body at Warnimont Park along the Lake Michigan shore in Cudahy, Wis.
■ Denise Lodge, a 64-yearold woman from Goffstown, N.H., and wife of a former Harvard Medical School morgue manager, pleaded guilty to a federal charge after selling and shipping stolen human body parts from Harvard and an Arkansas mortuary.
■ Anthony Carter Jr., a 20-year-old from Tunica, was charged with four counts of capital murder in the November 2023 deaths of a man, woman and unborn child in a shooting while another person died after the car crashed in Robinsonville, Miss.
■ Avery Rosario, a Marine private first class in Southern California, no longer faces sex crimes charges after being accused of having sex with a missing 14-year-old girl found in his Camp Pendleton barracks last summer.
■ Kat Bruce, founder of the U.K. environmental startup NatureMetrics, is set to take part in a 2,000-mile row around Great Britain as part of the GB Row Challenge starting June 9 while taking a rowboat set to carry gear for sampling ocean microplastic, a microphone for detecting shipping and wildlife noises and a sea-surface thermometer.
■ Courtney Pandolfi, a 44-year-old woman from Garden Grove, Calif., with several arrests related to driving under the influence, was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for a 2020 crash that killed a 23-year-old pregnant woman.
■ Jean Carlos Zarzuela, a 30-year-old homeless New York City man, was arrested after punching a 9-year-old girl in the face days after being released without bail after he was imprisoned for punching a 54-year-old woman on April 4.