In the news

■ Eric Mays, a City Council member in Flint, Mich., pleaded no contest to a charge of willful neglect of duty for pawning his cityowned laptop nine times to get $100 loans, with the last transaction occurring in May when he paid $116 to get the computer back.

■ Larry Giddens, police chief in Lakeland, Fla., said he is embarrassed and disappointed, and has suspended nine K-9 officers who were recorded driving up to 101 mph as they returned from a police dog competition.

■ James Comey, the FBI director fired by President Donald Trump, will give a series of lectures at Howard University in Washington and deliver the keynote address at its opening convocation on Sept. 22, and plans to donate his $100,000 compensation to a university scholarship fund.

■ Hong Inh, a 103-year-old Cambodian woman who survived starvation, suffering and war in her native land, waved a tiny American flag as she became a U.S. citizen at a ceremony in Los Angeles with three generations of her family in attendance.

■ Austin Bohanan, 18, followed two creeks hoping they’d lead to a highway during his 11 days lost with no cellphone service in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and eventually emerged safely in remote Blount County, Tenn. ■ Aati bin Attiyah al-Qurashi, a Saudi Arabian police colonel, said a 14-year- old boy arrested after a video showed him dancing to the “Macarena” at an intersection in the city of Jiddah was released to his father, who signed a pledge that his son won’t again violate public morals.

■ Rolando Naranjo, 41, and Betsy Espinoza, 33, both of Hialeah, Fla., were jailed on drug charges after a schoolteacher called police when he noticed that their 11-year-old son’s backpack smelled of marijuana and the boy told officers that his father used it to transport drugs.

■ Branson Lee, 6, of Calhoun, La., moved his little brother away from a backyard pool and pulled from the water his 21-month-old twin cousins, who were floating facedown, then yelled for help, and their father revived them using CPR.

■ Kevin Will Jr., 5, of Tomball, Texas, whose police officer father was killed while working at a traffic accident in 2011, was escorted by dozens of police officers after his mother sent out a text asking if any officers would be willing to walk Kevin to his first day of kindergarten.