In the news

■ T.J. Smith, a Baltimore police spokesman, said investigators can’t retrieve footage from the body camera worn by officer Phillip Lippe, who was wounded during a fatal shootout with a suspect, because the camera was struck by a bullet and was severely damaged.

■ Kiah Morris of Bennington, Vt., the only black woman serving in the state’s House of Representatives, has resigned effective immediately saying the racial harassment from elements in the community and vandalism to her home combined with online threats had become too much for her to finish her second term.

■ Ryan Repp, a spokesman for Brownells Inc., an Iowa-based firearms company, said the company decided to help police in Bismarck, N.D., by donating nine AR-15 rifles, custom parts and other equipment for the department’s school resource officers.

■ Jared Hensley, a high school athletic director and assistant principal in Soddy-Daisy, Tenn., was placed on administrative leave as school officials investigate a video Hensley posted to explain his ban on athletic shorts in which he said: “Blame the girls, because they pretty much ruin everything.”

■ Christopher Vanbibber and Lena Peterson, both of Caseyville, Ill., pleaded guilty to using counterfeit $20 bills to buy Girl Scout cookies, with Vanbibber admitting that he also passed fake money at a church concession stand, federal prosecutors said.

■ David Sproling, 51, of St. Louis faces involuntary manslaughter and other charges after, police said, he confronted at gunpoint an unarmed man he suspected of stealing his tools and shot the man as he tried to flee before police arrived.