In the news

■ Maria Hiaasen called it “bittersweet” and a “lifelong dream” for her husband, Rob Hiaasen, killed in the June shooting at the Capital Gazette newsroom in Maryland, to have his novel Float Plan, published by Loyola University’s Apprentice House Press.

■ Michael Caldaroni, assistant fire chief in Bridgeport, Conn., said a woman was hospitalized with hand injuries by an explosion that was set off when she mistook a stick of dynamite for a candle and lit it after her home lost power during a storm.

■ Kevin Tate, 47, and Milot Cadichon, 46, two Chicago police officers, face bribery and conspiracy charges after being accused of accepting thousands of dollars from an attorney-referral service in return for the contact information of people involved in traffic accidents.

■ Dorsey Hopson, the Shelby County, Tenn., school superintendent, said that online, night and Saturday classes will be held to make up for the time lost when Kirby High School is closed for six to eight weeks so exterminators can deal with a rat, cockroach and snake infestation.

■ Chad McIntyre, a police lieutenant in Springfield, Mo., said a driver wounded during a road-rage fight should have sought medical attention rather than follow the other driver long enough for police to take the shooter into custody.

■ Gavin Naylor, a Florida shark researcher, said that for the first time DNA from a tooth taken from a boy’s leg after a shark bite in New York was used to identify the animal as a sand tiger shark, which he said likely bit the boy by accident as it hunted fish.