In the news

■ Cynthia Watkins, co-owner of a wolf conservation preserve in Chipley, Fla., is asking people not to shoot a 16-year-old gray wolf named Tahane that escaped after an oak tree fell on its enclosure during Hurricane Michael.

■ Kenny Freeman, 43, the sheriff of Nowata County, Okla., was charged with embezzlement after state investigators accused him of stealing donated school supplies left at the sheriff’s office for safekeeping and using them for his election campaign.

■ John Russo, a New Jersey family court judge, said before a judicial disciplinary panel that he had told a woman seeking a restraining order that she could “close your legs” to stop a sexual assault, saying he made the comment to elicit more details from her about the man she said forced her to have sex.

■ Michelle Beck, 43, of Winston-Salem, N.C., accused of using a shovel to hit a man trying to repossess her vehicle and then assaulting deputies called to the scene, now faces assault with a deadly weapon and other counts, Sheriff David Grice said.

■ Manuel Ramirez-Godoy, 21, faces grand larceny and other charges after police used identification found in a backpack left behind a shoe store in Roanoke, Va., to tie him to three break-ins during which 20 right-foot shoes on display were taken, with the operator explaining that the left shoes are kept behind a counter.

■ Stephen Barone, a white police officer caught on video warning a group of mostly black and Hispanic young people in Hartford, Conn., not to fight or run away because he was “trigger happy,” has been fired, said Police Chief David Rosado.

■ Michael Fine, 61, a lawyer from Avon, Ohio, serving 12 years in prison for hypnotizing unwitting female clients for his sexual gratification, has been ordered to pay a former client who filed a civil suit seeking damages of more than $2.3 million.

■ Gordon Ramsay, the police chief in Wichita, Kan., said a 4-year-old boy in an SUV was hospitalized with a stomach wound and two people were arrested in a road-rage incident that began when one vehicle cut off the other.

■ Roy Drennon, 50, who police said was “showing off” when he lost control of his Porsche Spyder and plowed into a crowd, injuring 11 people at a 2017 car show in Boise, Idaho, faces up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine after being found guilty of reckless driving.