In the news

■ Elmer Alvarez, a homeless man in New Haven, Conn., said he wanted to “do the right thing” when he found a $10,000 check and returned it within a few hours to a real estate agent who had dropped it along a neighborhood street.

■ Scott Campbell, who received 90 votes to his opponent’s 89 to win re-election to the North Pike School Board in Summit, Miss., in an election where only about 15 percent of eligible voters cast ballots, said he’ll use his victory as a civics lesson to show that every vote counts.

■ Christopher Ryan, spokesman for the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay, said a student who wore a Nazi uniform to a campus breakfast on Halloween is no longer a cadet at the school, adding that he didn’t know whether the student left voluntarily or was dismissed.

■ Russell Bernard, a Tennessee state trooper, saved the life of a bleeding driver whose neck was punctured by the antlers of a deer that crashed through her windshield when the animal was struck by another vehicle on a highway in Dickson County.

■ Jerry Mutsindikwa, a prosecutor in Zimbabwe, said four people who booed and sang “We hate what you’re doing” as the country’s first lady, Grace Mugabe, spoke at a rally attended by President Robert Mugabe, were arrested on charges of undermining the president’s authority.

■ Misty Spann, 26, of Duncan, Okla., whose 2016 marriage to her biological mother, Patricia Spann, 44, was annulled in October on the grounds of fraud and illegality, pleaded guilty to incest and was sentenced to 10 years probation.