In the news

■ Steve Bannon, the former chief strategist for President Donald Trump, said conservatives need not worry about Democrats, telling a crowd of about 400 people in St. Louis that they should instead focus on what he called the “corrupt and incompetent Republican establishment.”

■ Judy Reardon, who served as legal counsel to former New Hampshire Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat, called it “petty and childish” that the office of Republican Gov. Chris Sununu refused to move a potted tree that blocks the Statehouse portrait of Shaheen, the state’s first female governor.

■ Hugo Romero-Robles, 23, faces charges of driving while intoxicated and felony hit and run, accused of driving into people who were waiting in line for a food truck outside a Durham, N.C., nightclub, injuring seven of them.

■ Marc Miley of the Lowndes County, Miss., sheriff’s office said nine workers at the county jail in Columbus face “pretty serious discipline” after an armed robbery suspect jammed a cell lock with paper towels or toilet paper and then passed several guards as he escaped through the jail’s front door.

■ Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkey’s foreign minister, said he offered the “nation’s love and greetings” during a visit with Sinan Narin and Eyup Yildirim, who are imprisoned in the U.S. and accused of attacking protesters in May outside the Turkish ambassador’s home in Washington.

■ Ecclesiastical Denzel Washington, 53, an asthmatic inmate serving a life sentence for two murders, won a court judgment that orders Missouri to eliminate smoking at its 21 correctional facilities, resolving a lawsuit in which Washington said he was forced to share a cell with a heavy smoker.

■ Gov. Jerry Brown of California signed a bill naming the Augustynolophus morrisi, a duckbilled creature that lived millions of years ago and has been found only in fossilized remains in California, as the official state dinosaur.

■ Christopher Wimmer, 35, a former Okaloosa County, Fla., paramedic who took photos with incapacitated victims in ambulances as part of a selfie competition with a co-worker, was sentenced to six months in jail and three years of probation.

■ Suzanne Stokoe, owner of Stokoe Farms in Scottsville, N.Y., is marking the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in the state by creating a 3-acre corn maze featuring the shapes of activist Susan B. Anthony’s face and her Rochester home.