In the news

■ Kevin McCarthy, the U.S. House Republican majority leader, posted photos on social media of a rock on the floor of his Bakersfield, Calif., office, saying he needs public help to identify the two men caught on security video tossing the rock through a window to break in and steal office equipment.

■ Bruce Alexander, 49, of Tampa, Fla., accused of groping a woman on a flight from Houston to Albuquerque, N.M., told authorities after his arrest that “the President of the United States says it’s ok to grab women by their private parts,” according to a criminal complaint.

■ Doug Stewart, 29, serving a life sentence in the death of his wife eight years ago, led authorities to where he buried her body in Kalamazoo County, Mich., in exchange for an Xbox video game and permission to participate in some prison programs.

■ Catherine Pugh, the mayor of Baltimore, wants to raise roughly $4 million over the next two years to enroll 100 young people, known as “squeegee kids” because they dart in and out of traffic to wash car windows, in a job training program.

■ Thomas Atkocaitis, 57, and Denise Atkocaitis, 55, both of New Boston, N.H., face charges after authorities said they confined a girl under the age of 18 for more than two months in a basement room that had mesh-covered windows and was rigged with an alarm. ■ Samuel Herbert of Buffalo, N.Y., saying, “Enough of the symbolism, we want realism,” has collected more than 6,000 signatures on a petition calling for the city to replace a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. that doesn’t look like King and that the artist described as a “representation” of the slain civil-rights leader.

■ Xiao Xia Zha of New York City was sentenced to 18 months in prison after she admitted trafficking $3 million worth of counterfeit goods, including knockoff Louis Vuitton handbags and Nike footwear, through a New Jersey port.

■ Monique Johns, 49, a Democrat running for Delaware’s Legislature, asked voters to forgive her after she admitted removing her opponent’s campaign literature from the front door of a home and replacing it with her own.

■ Randy Grim, founder of Stray Rescue of St. Louis, said Quentin, a mixed-breed dog that gained national attention 14 years ago when he emerged alive from a city pound gas chamber and was used to spearhead the no-kill movement, died after a stroke.