In the news

■ Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who followed tradition by sticking a slip of paper with a written prayer between the crevices of the Western Wall in Jerusalem during a visit earlier this year, revealed that his prayer said, “Good Lord, spare us hurricanes this year.”

■ Robert Bentley, a dermatologist who resigned as Alabama’s governor in 2017 amid a sex scandal, has opened a new dermatology office in Tuscaloosa.

■ Kevin Connor Armitage, 54, a former professor at Miami University in Ohio, was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison for traveling to Missouri to have sex with someone who he thought was a teen girl but who was actually an undercover agent, the U.S. attorney’s office said.

■ Kfir “Leo” Baranes, a Florida helicopter pilot, is fighting a $500 fine for landing in a friend’s backyard to surprise her with a ride for her 45th birthday, saying the neighborhood is not on the Federal Aviation Administration’s restricted-airspace map.

■ Jared Murphy, 18, of Stonington, Maine, suffered serious injuries when his pickup overturned several times and he was ejected from the truck, a wreck that occurred within minutes and about 5 miles of a previous accident in which, police said, he clipped a car and caused it to crash.

■ Alan Marble, 64, who has served as president of Missouri Southern State University since 2014, announced that he plans to retire after this academic year, The Joplin Globe reported.

■ Natalie Dulach said it sounded “like a 300-pound man was tackling him in the kitchen” when a kinkajou, a small rain forest mammal related to raccoons, ran into a man’s apartment in Lake Worth Beach, Fla., when he opened the door, biting him and sinking its claws into his leg.

■ Griffin Burchard, 16, who as a volunteer at Alexandria National Cemetery noticed an overgrown plot nearby, led his Boy Scout troop in restoring the cemetery named for abolitionist Frederick Douglass and adding a new historical marker, with the Virginia city receiving state funds to determine how many people are buried there.

■ Yeslie Aranda, 57, a Venezuelan who lost his left leg in a traffic accident, left his hometown of San Cristobal last year with a backpack, $30 and an aluminum prosthetic and arrived recently in Ushuaia, Argentina, known as the world’s southernmost city, saying “I am living my dream” as he reached a sign that welcomes visitors to “the end of the world.”