In the news

■ Ryan Loos, 30, of Marilla, N.Y., had his 56-year-old mother serve as his getaway driver while he went inside a fast-food restaurant in a Buffalo suburb and demanded cash at gunpoint, resulting in both being charged with robbery and possession of stolen property, police said.

■ Chris Christie, 55, the governor of New Jersey, observed that “You’re getting old when they start naming things after you,” after a new access road was named after him in the county where he served in county government in the mid-1990s.

■ Shannon Kepler, a white former police officer in Tulsa, was sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined $10,000 after being convicted of manslaughter after four trials spanning nearly a year, including three hung juries, for shooting his daughter’s 19-year-old black boyfriend in 2014.

■ Richard Bain, 35, was charged with possessing illegal drugs after two people in Murfreesboro, Tenn., suffered nonfatal drug overdoses from heroin laced with the opioid fentanyl that investigators said was supplied by Bain.

■ Terry Wilson, sheriff of Coosa County, Ala., said inmate Shane Vernon, 27, who was being held for burglary and auto theft, “physically circumvented the security of the jail and escaped” for the second time in a month and was last seen in a wooded area close to the Elmore County line.

■ Joann Hussey, spokesman for Hollywood, Fla., said lifeguards kept swimmers away until wildlife officers could capture a 6-foot crocodile that came ashore on Dania Beach as it drifted south in the Atlantic Ocean. ■ Ted Cook, police chief of Mountain Brook, Ala., said officers who saw a speeding car crash went to the scene and found a 6-year-old girl who was being rushed to the hospital by her family after having been accidentally shot in the shoulder by a sibling. ■ William Phillips, 35, a Monroe, La., chef who was named the 2016 Louisiana Seafood King, was arrested on a felony stalking charge after a woman said he texted or called 54 times, showed up at her home after being told not to come and threatened to hurt and kill her, deputies said.

■ Shaimaa Ahmed, 25, an Egyptian singer known by her stage name Shima, was detained for a week by security police after being accused of promoting debauchery by appearing in a racy video in her underwear singing and performing suggestive acts before a class of young men.