In the news

■ Jimmy Carter, 93, the former president, said he was “deathly afraid” and “prayed for three hours” while his 90-year-old wife, Rosalynn, successfully underwent surgery at an Atlanta hospital early Sunday to remove old scar tissue from a portion of her small intestine.

■ Michael Rohana, 24, who first took a selfie with a 2,000-year-old Chinese terra cotta statue kept in a closedoff area of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia during a pre-Christmas party, faces theft and other counts after FBI investigators said he broke a thumb off the statue and took it home.

■ Nicholas Kettle, 27, the Republican minority whip of the Rhode Island Senate, pleaded innocent to two extortion counts after being indicted for pressuring a male page for sex on multiple occasions, prosecutors said. ■ Yuliansyah, an Indonesian police detective who goes by a single name, said four farmers and a 13-yearold boy admitted that they stabbed, clubbed and shot a critically endangered orangutan at least 130 times with an air gun, killing it, to protect their pineapple crop.

■ Danny Bettcher, 65, of New York Mills, Minn., who still had a valid driver’s license despite being arrested 28 times for drunken driving, was sentenced to at least 2 years in prison after being convicted of operating under the influence in September.

■ Bill DeLind, a Milwaukee art appraiser, said his partner noticed an original 1949 print by Pablo Picasso, worth an estimated $50,000 and one of only 30 done by the artist who signed each one with a green crayon, was missing from their galley. ■ Edel Huskey, a member of the ambulance squad in Woodstown, N.J., said nothing salvageable remained after a fast-moving, early morning fire Monday destroyed five ambulances and gutted the squad’s building, causing an estimated $2 million in damage.

■ Sheikh Athbi Al Sabah and Sheikh Khalifa Al Sabah, members of Kuwait’s ruling family, were both sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of insulting the country’s National Assembly speaker by being part of a group that suggested Kuwaiti judges received bribes.