In the news

■ Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, whose state was among several recently struck by hurricanes, said victims of repeat flooding should consider the storms’ devastation a sign that “at some point, God is telling you to move.”

■ Michael Tarver, a 55-year-old diabetic inmate serving a life sentence for murder, received a $550,000 settlement from Georgia in a federal lawsuit filed after a cut near Tarver’s ankle became infected while he was in a prison infirmary, eventually requiring the amputation of his leg.

■ Sheila Venable, a New Jersey superior court judge, ruled that John Cramsey, who pleaded guilty to weapons charges after his arrest while on his way into New York with a vehicle loaded with weapons, should go to prison despite his argument that he was on his way to rescue a teenage girl from a drug den.

■ John Gaffney, a 55-yearold doctor from Linwood, N.J., faces up to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to health care fraud for signing prescriptions for patients he never saw — part of a scheme that cheated the state’s health benefits programs and other insurers out of nearly $25 million, authorities said.

■ Steve Sword, a criminal court judge in Knox County, Tenn., ruled that a 4-yearold girl who witnessed her mother’s death in 2015 will not have to testify in the murder trial of her father. ■ Ruth Terrell, a spokesman for the Hickman Mills school district in Kansas City, Mo., called bus driver D’Anthony Gildon a “hero” for getting 34 children off a bus before it went up in flames for reasons that remained unclear, the Kansas City Star reported.

■ Luis Penzo, 19, who confessed in court papers that he had punched his high school principal in the face after the administrator asked him to turn down the music blaring from his headphones, completed a family therapy program and will avoid jail time as long as he stays out of trouble for three years, a New York City judge ruled.

■ Ned Kirsch, a Vermont school superintendent, said a substitute teacher was fired after she was seen showing elementary school students how to make the Nazi salute to Adolf Hitler. ■ Terry Norton, director and chief veterinarian at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center on Jekyll Island, said dozens of sick, injured or newborn sea turtles have returned to their tanks after they were evacuated to an aquarium in Chattanooga, Tenn., to escape Hurricane Irma.