In the news

■ Michelle Havrilla of Willowick, Ohio, who lost her wedding dress in 1985 when a dry cleaner put it in the wrong box, was nearly speechless when it was returned to her by a woman who found it in an attic while looking for her own mother’s dress and used social media to locate its rightful owner.

■ Randy Brunelle, 35, of Plymouth, Mass., suspected of being the “obit bandit,” a police nickname for the thief who was breaking into people’s homes while they attended wakes or funerals, was arrested by Barnstable police, who said he had jewelry taken from the home of a woman who was away attending her mother’s wake.

■ Stephanie Andrewlevich, an elementary school principal in a violent section of Philadelphia, is offering to pay $100 out of her own pocket to each of the school’s 33 eighth-graders if they can make it to graduation without anyone getting into a fight.

■ Jocelyn Morffi, a firstgrade teacher at a Miami Catholic school, was accused of violating church rules and fired the day after she returned from marrying her same-sex partner in a ceremony in the Florida Keys, an Archdiocese of Miami spokesman said.

■ Dina Powell, a former deputy national security adviser to President Donald Trump, over the next year will teach seminars and study groups on U.S. foreign policy, the Middle East and international politics at Harvard University’s Kennedy School.

■ Gloria Williams, 52, faces up to 22 years in prison after pleading guilty to kidnapping an infant from a hospital in Jacksonville, Fla., nearly 20 years ago and raising her as her own child in Walterboro, S.C., prosecutors said.

■ Kimberly Clapper, a U.S. Department of Agriculture biologist, said that a plan to use pyrotechnics, lasers, spotlights, crow distress calls and decoys to scare 30,000 crows away from Trenton, N.J., has worked in other urban areas.

■ Tnuza Jamal Hassan, 19, of Minneapolis, pleaded innocent to federal arson and terrorism counts after prosecutors said she tried to travel to Afghanistan to join al-Qaida and intended to kill people when she set several fires on a college campus in January.

■ Hank Sanders, 75, a Democrat and Alabama’s longest-serving state senator, announced that he won’t run for a 10th term and will step aside so his daughter, Malika Sanders-Fortier, can run for the Senate District 23 seat, which covers the Selma area.