In the news

■ Mike Ritch, a professional chef who co-founded Smokin’ Angels BBQ Ministry, said a fundraiser the Adkins, Texas, group held selling $10 plates of barbecue to raise money for victims of the church shooting in nearby Sutherland Springs exceeded its goal of $50,000.

■ Spike Lee, the director who was presenting two of his documentaries at the Virginia Film Festival in Charlottesville, asked the audience to observe a moment of silence to remember the area woman killed after a car plowed through a group of counterprotesters during a white nationalist rally in August.

■ Borut Pahor, Slovenia’s president, won a second term in office, becoming only the second Slovenian president to win a second term since the country gained independence from the former Yugoslavia in 1991.

■ Elizabeth Guerrero, 68, of Rio Grande Valley, Texas, faces charges in the death of her granddaughter’s former common-law husband, with authorities accusing her of running over 20-year-old Gilberto Gaytan with her SUV as part of a custody dispute between Gaytan and the granddaughter.

■ Warli, who uses one name and is marketing officer for a waxwork museum in Indonesia, said the De Mata Trick Eye Museum removed a statue of Adolf Hitler, with which visitors could take selfies in front of an image of the Auschwitz extermination camp, after Jewish and rights groups expressed anger.

■ Shawn Moore of Memphis faces homicide and other charges, police said, after he placed a 1-year-old girl in a bed with his gun and the infant’s 3-year-old sibling accidentally fatally shot her.

■ Lindsey Pelton, 36, and Doug Teixeira, 35, of Deltona, Fla., were charged with providing false information in what authorities said was a faked home invasion and shooting that the couple staged as part of a scheme to collect insurance money.

■ Emerson Isaac Hernandez-Turcios was pulled over in Mississippi transporting eight people in the country illegally in a vehicle designed to carry five people, with three of them hiding under a cover in the cargo area, and was arrested on a DUI charge after the officer noticed a pipe and marijuana residue, authorities said.

■ Arongkron “Paul” Malasukum of New York City pleaded guilty to a federal wildlife trafficking count, admitting that he purchased parts from endangered African lions and tigers worth more than $150,000, with prosecutors saying he then sent them to Thailand for sale.