In the news

■ Leslie Gibson, a Republican Maine House candidate who was widely criticized for insulting the survivors of last month’s deadly Florida high school shooting, calling one survivor a “skinhead lesbian,” said he is quitting the race. ■ Wade Horton, administrative officer for San Luis Obispo County, Calif., described as a “tragedy” jailhouse footage that shows sheriff’s deputies watching and sometimes laughing as a schizophrenic man writhes on the floor of his cell until he dies, a case that resulted in the county settling with the man’s family for $5 million. ■ Sheriff Mike Lewis of Wicomico County, Md., said an investigation had been opened after 25 dead horses were discovered in various stages of decay on a 2-acre farm where the farm’s co-owner Barbara Pilchard said she saw nothing wrong with leaving the carcasses to decompose.

■ Josue Daniel Alfaro of Portland, Ore., a serial bank robber nicknamed the “Great Outdoors Bandit” because witnesses described him as outdoorsy, was sentenced to more than five years in prison.

■ The Rev. Alex Santora said that after police deemed safe a suspicious package delivered to Our Lady of Grace Church in Hoboken, N.J., it was opened — revealing a baby Jesus statue stolen from the church nearly 90 years ago and a note detailing how the sender’s grandfather received it in the 1930s.

■ Joe Fletcher, 30, of Akron, Ohio, convicted on drug and gun charges and locked up in Georgia, faces a new charge after, prosecutors said, he posted a video online of himself using a contraband cellphone.