In the news

■ Gary Goldsmith, the uncle of Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, faces an assault charge after a late-night altercation with his wife in a London street, according to British police and newspapers.

■ Kim Davis, the Rowan County, Ky., clerk who spent five days in jail in 2015 for refusing to issue marriage licenses to samesex couples after such unions were legalized in the U.S., will travel to Romania, where she will advocate for a nationwide gay marriage ban there, according to the Liberty Counsel, a conservative Christian organization.

■ Abbot Johannes, the head of the Himmerod Abbey near the village of Grosslittgen in Germany, was quoted by the dpa news agency as saying the 883-year-old Cistercian monastery is closing because of a monk shortage.

■ Skyler Whitebull of Cannon Ball, N.D., was arrested on drug possession and preventing arrest charges after Bismarck police said they spotted the 29-year-old attempting to light a cigarette with the nozzle of a gas pump and he took a “fighting stance” when they tried to stop him.

■ Terry Park, sheriff of Choctaw County, Okla., said two detainees on drug possession charges, Harley Davidson and Rakeem Lennox, could face additional charges after they escaped the jail to visit their girlfriends and smoke marijuana, and then returned to the lockup.

■ Steven Barnes, 38, of South Carolina, whose death sentence was overturned because he wasn’t allowed to represent himself in his trial in the 2001 killing of a Georgia teen, was convicted again Friday and sentenced to life in prison.

■ Jason Clark, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, said more than 6,600 inmates in the state donated about $53,000 from their commissary funds to the American Red Cross to be used for Hurricane Harvey relief efforts.

■ Yokatia Rodriguez, a $1 million lottery winner of Tewksbury, Mass., plans to appeal her attempted-shoplifting conviction for trying to leave a Kohl’s store after paying for nearly $520 worth of items but not $80 worth of lipsticks — a “misunderstanding that could happen to anyone,” her attorney said.