In the news

■ James Bunner, a multimedia journalist for KTTCTV in Rochester, Minn., was fired after he wore a “Make America Great Again” hat while covering a President Donald Trump rally, a violation of station rules against wearing apparel from political campaigns while on the job, News Director Noel Sederstrom said.

■ Carol Sharrow, 51, of Sanford, Maine, faces more than a dozen charges, including manslaughter and aggravated assault, after driving onto a baseball field during a game, killing a man, and sending players and umpires fleeing, police said.

■ Alex Branczik, head of contemporary European art at Sotheby’s in London, said “it appears we just got Banksy-ed,” after a spray-painted canvas by the street artist Banksy dropped through a shredder that was embedded in its frame, leaving half of the canvas hanging from the bottom in strips, just after the canvas had sold for $1.4 million.

■ James Samuels, 52, a Kansas City, Mo., fire captain, faces charges after illegally selling several firearms to people he knew were felons, including some who told him they were going to use them to shoot people, prosecutors said.

■ James Bryan Eads of West Monroe, La., faces a charge of driving under the influence after a 55-year-old passenger in his 1951 GMC pickup fell out a faulty door in Mississippi and was struck and killed by a second vehicle.

■ Dexter Riley, 38, was charged in the robbery of a Palatine, Ill., bank after FBI agents linked him to a lottery ticket seen on video surveillance falling out of his pocket.

■ Argel Hernandez-Escobar, 32, was charged by Memphis police with reckless homicide and aggravated child neglect after a pistol discharged, striking him in the leg and killing his 3-yearold son, Angel Hernandez.

■ Ron Cummins, former mayor of Scott City, Mo., has filed a defamation suit against Republican state Rep. Holly Rehder and two other people, claiming that Rehder made slanderous statements to the media about Cummins even after she’d been advised that prosecutors had found “no laws had been broken.”

■ Jesse Wall and Christine Arsenault of South Paris, Maine, won their second North American Wife Carrying Championship title at Maine’s Sunday River ski resort, earning Arsenault’s weight in beer and five times her weight in cash for being the fastest in the 278yard obstacle course competition.