In the news

■ Michael Main, sheriff of Isabella County, Mich., apologized for accidentally leaving his handgun behind in a school gym locker room when he changed into his uniform for a weekend event where the weapon was later found by a student. ■ Diane Black, a Tennessee Republican congressman, and her husband, Dr. David Black, have donated $250,000 toward a $6 million goal to build a center in Chattanooga that will pay tribute to the state’s 32 Medal of Honor recipients. ■ Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s prime minister, met with members of the Choctaw Nation in Durant, Okla., to thank the tribe for a gift of $147 that was collected and sent to Dublin in 1847 to help feed the Irish during a potato famine.

■ Barbara Sherrill, 29, upset that her son was disciplined for getting into a fight at school, was arrested on accusations of threatening the middle school in Hiddenite, N.C., by telling others that police “better hope they find [the bombs] before they go off,” investigators said.

■ Tim Bilodeau, police chief for the University of Vermont in Burlington, said a tip led investigators to recover in Connecticut a 2-foot-long black rhinoceros horn valued at more than $100,000 that was stolen from a locked storage room last year.

■ Pete Luke, a major with the Hinds County, Miss., sheriff’s office, said a 59-year-old man was hospitalized after being struck in the neck by a stray bullet when a 10-year-old and a 15-year-old from Texas went target shooting while visiting relatives.

■ Johnny Williams, sheriff of Warren County, N.C., said deputies are searching for two assailants after a Sunday School teacher was killed and a pastor severely injured in a home-invasion robbery that ended with their house being set on fire before the intruders fled in the couple’s car.

■ Sadhna Kaushik, a hospital administrator in Uttar Pradesh, India, promised “strict action” after two doctors and two nurses were suspended for using the freshly amputated leg of a patient who has been injured in a bus accident as the patient’s headrest as he lay on a stretcher.

■ Chriswell Scott, a police spokesman in Marana, Ariz., tweeted “Don’t drive impaired, till death do we part doesn’t need any help,” after Amber Young, wearing a white, open-back dress, was arrested on impaired-driving charges after she was involved in a wreck as she drove to her wedding.