In the news

■ Xavier Cunningham, 10, of Harrisonville, Mo., is expected to make a full recovery after tumbling out of a tree to escape a swarm of yellow jackets and landing on a meat skewer that penetrated his skull from his face to the back of his head, missing his eye, brain, spinal cord and major blood vessels.

■ Carlos Mansos Blanco, 30, who crashed his truck into a rental car in Islamorado, Fla., killing four Spanish tourists, lost his license for six months and was sent to traffic school after prosecutors said his driving was “careless,” but not reckless enough to warrant manslaughter charges.

■ Michael Anderson, a shrimper and fisherman from Tybee Island, Ga., was sentenced to more than six years in prison and ordered to pay $818,000 in restitution after being convicted of filing false claims saying that he lost income because of foreign competition.

■ Eric Benjamin, a state wildlife officer, said firefighters were called in with equipment normally used to extricate accident victims from cars to free a young black bear that got its head stuck inside an old milk can near Roseau, Minn.

■ Jessica Henderson, 38, of Des Moines, Iowa, faces child-endangerment charges after police accused her of binding her three children, ages 9, 5 and 4, by the hands or feet to keep them under control.

■ Cindy Morris, a judge in Whitfield County, Ga., refused to release Steve Foster, a Democrat running for Congress, on bond while he appeals a drunken-driving conviction that sent him to jail for six months, which will keep him behind bars through the November election.

■ Richard Piquard, 24, of Northbridge, Mass., facing an animal-cruelty charge after being accused of burying his Shih Tzu alive because it wasn’t getting along with his cat and he couldn’t find it a new home, told police he thought the dog was dead when he buried it.

■ Slint Tate, 36, an Oklahoma man serving life in prison on a murder charge, was sentenced to an additional 20 years after pleading guilty to using smuggled cellphones to run a methamphetamine ring from behind bars, prosecutors said.

■ Louis Mapp, 81, a volunteer who rocks babies in the neonatal intensive care unit at USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital in Mobile, Ala., and his wife, Melinda, donated more than $1 million for an endowment to help the unit meet future needs.