In the news

■ Joey “Jaws” Chestnut, 34, extended his reign as champion of the Nathan’s Famous July Fourth hot dog eating contest held at New York’s Coney Island, downing a record 74 wieners and buns in 10 minutes to take the Mustard Belt for an 11th time. ■ Anna Mae Blessing, 92, of Fountain Hills, Ariz., angry that her 72-year-old son wanted to put her in an assisted living facility, confronted him with two pistols concealed in the pockets of her robe and fatally shot him, investigators with the Maricopa County sheriff’s office said.

■ Jaisaan Lovett, the first black valedictorian at a prep school in Rochester, N.Y., delivered his graduation speech at City Hall at the invitation of the mayor after he was barred from addressing his classmates at a June commencement exercise because of a dispute with the school’s leader.

■ Sean Larkin, a police sergeant in Tulsa, will be the face of “PD Cam,” a new 30-minute cable TV show aimed at looking at law enforcement work from the officers’ perspective by offering unfiltered video from police body-worn, dashboard and helicopter cameras.

■ Amelia Milling, 21, a Tennessee college student injured when she tumbled down a snowy hiking trail and into the Eagle River east of Anchorage, Alaska, was rescued by a 7-year-old Alaskan husky named Nanook that pulled her to shore and camped with her overnight until help arrived.

■ David Foxman, a judge in Volusia County, Fla., refused to send a cabbie to jail for violating a Daytona Beach city ordinance requiring drivers to wear collared shirts while on duty, calling the misdemeanor charge like living “in a communist country or something.”

■ Melinda Rosetti-Spence blamed her situation on “a gambling problem” before she was sentenced to 10 years in prison for embezzling about $266,600 from the Pink Hearts Fund, a cancer charity based in Long Beach, Miss.

■ Trey Bergman, a Houston attorney and defending champion, immersed his face in a 9-inch Key lime pie as he consumed it in 1 minute, 41 seconds, beating 24 others to win the July 4 pie-eating contest in Key West, Fla.