In the news

■ Victoria Burgess, 34, a fire inspector in Pompano Beach, Fla., is believed to be the first woman to use a standup paddleboard to travel from Cuba to Key West, making a 100- mile voyage across the Florida straits in just under 28 hours.

■ Tammera Goodman, 56, of Kansas City, Mo., accused of embezzling about $465,000 from her family’s restoration business to pay credit- card bills and her mortgage, was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to failing to pay taxes on the stolen money.

■ Josephine Iyamu, a nurse who used voodoo rituals as intimidation, was convicted by an English jury of leading a network that charged Nigerian women as much as $44,000 to take them to Germany where they were forced to work as prostitutes until they repaid the debt.

■ Robert Galen, 95, of Brunswick, Maine, said he picked up a wooden plank when he saw a rabid fox looking him “right in the eye” just before the 10-pound predator attacked and the two struggled for about 10 minutes until Galen beat it to death.

■ Howard Hinkle, 67, of Wichita Falls, Texas, was indicted, accused of fraudulently receiving more than $5.8 million in loans after bank officials, who searched sites in Texas and Oklahoma, couldn’t locate any of the 8,000 head of cattle that Hinkle used as collateral.

■ Danielle Layman, 38, of Ponca City, Okla., sentenced to more than three years in prison after being convicted of manufacturing the poison ricin in a murder-for-hire plot to kill her ex-husband in Israel, apologized and called the scheme “an elaborate fantasy.”

■ Raphael Sanchez, 44, former chief counsel for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Seattle, was sentenced to four years in prison for stealing the identities of people facing deportation and using them to run up bills totaling $190,000.

■ Charles Folk, 40, of Melbourne, Fla., who called a taxi for a 30-mile ride home after being released from the Brevard County jail where he had been held on a criminal-mischief charge, was returned to jail when he couldn’t pay the $70 fare.

■ Nick Hinrichs, an attorney for two sisters who reached a $1 million settlement with a Kansas City, Mo., bar where they were handcuffed to a wall when bouncers wrongly thought they had used a counterfeit $50 bill, said he is glad his clients can “finally put this nightmare behind them.”