In the news

■ Jordan Patch, owner of the Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, N.Y., said 300,000 people watched live as April the giraffe gave birth to a healthy male calf, two years after people around the world tuned in to watch a live stream awaiting the birth of her previous calf.

■ Charles IgwekalaNweke, a math teacher at Hughes STEM High School in Cincinnati, has resigned after admitting to the principal that he chose to ducttape students’ mouths shut instead of reprimanding them for talking during an exam.

■ Eric Siereveld, an assistant professor at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, said 10 of his trumpet students are offering to play taps at veterans’ funerals rather than leave the bugle call to a recording, adding that he suggested the program to acknowledge the sacrifices service members make.

■ Florence Fang, who owns a colorful, bulbous-shaped house known as the Flintstone House in Hillsborough, Calif., faces a lawsuit filed by the town, which alleges that she violated local codes when she put dinosaur sculptures in the backyard and made other landscaping changes that prompted local officials to declare the property a public nuisance.

■ David Loop, 61, of Winnie, Texas, a former fire chief at the Crystal Beach Volunteer Fire Department, faces at least five years in prison after pleading guilty to stealing about $70,000 from the department and spending unauthorized funds at a Louisiana racetrack and casino.

■ Adrienne Smith, 28, was arrested in the leg stabbing of her mother, Sharon Holmes, a district judge in Tulsa, Okla., after initially telling police that she was intoxicated and in another room when her mother fell on a knife and stabbed herself.

■ Brett Flansburg, a Vermont State Police trooper who collapsed after apparently being exposed to an opioidlike drug during a traffic stop, was revived by fellow troopers who administered the overdose-reversal drug Narcan.

■ Veronica Green Posey, 66, a 320-pound Florida woman, was sentenced to life in prison in the death of her 9-year-old cousin, Dericka Lindsay, after Posey sat on the child for more than 5 minutes as a form of punishment.

■ Catherine Patterson, 48, of Ashland, Ala., who had been ordered in earlier cases to stay off social media, is accused of bullying on Facebook and was arrested on 23 felony counts of aggravated stalking.