In the news

■ Jimmy Carter, 95, the former president, who fractured his pelvis Monday in a fall at his home in Plains, Ga., has been released from the hospital and is recovering at home, a spokeswoman said.

■ Olufolajimi Abegunde, 31, a Nigerian man living in Atlanta, was sentenced to more than six years in prison for an internet fraud scheme that used fake emails and dating website profiles to trick people into sending money to bogus bank accounts, federal prosecutors said.

■ Cameron Coke of Towson, Md., accused of swiping a baby Jesus figurine from a Nativity scene outside a church in December, was charged with theft and burglary after a news report generated a tip that enabled police to wrap up their 10-month investigation.

■ Noor Abukaram, 16, a high school cross-country runner in Sylvania, Ohio, who was disqualified from a meet because she wore a hijab, said she felt humiliated but put the blame on a rule barring most head coverings that’s now being reviewed by the state’s School Athletic Association.

■ John Billiot Jr., 39, of Scott, La., leader of America’s Cajun Navy, one of several groups that use boats and high-water vehicles to respond to natural disasters, was charged with theft and other counts, accused of taking money donated to buy Christmas gifts for children.

■ Tyrone McKee, 56, of Merrillville, Ind., faces murder, rape and other charges after investigators using modern forensic techniques, including DNA testing, connected him to the 1988 slaying of a woman whose body was found in an abandoned house.

■ Lewis Eisenberg, the U.S. ambassador to Italy, returned to Italian officials in Rome the marble head from a statue of the mythical figure Pan that was stolen from an archaeological site in 1968 and turned up in a California auction catalog in 2016.

■ Catrina Thompson, police chief of WinstonSalem, N.C., apologized after receiving complaints of racial bias on social media about a stuffed, black, dreadlock-wearing monkey that officers kept in their patrol car to calm children at crime scenes and ordered officers to remove the toy.

■ Marc Gofstein, a sheriff’s office spokesman in Columbus, Ohio, said a judge declared a mistrial after a deputy assigned to watch a defendant, who was wearing a stun belt, accidentally dropped the belt’s control device into a toilet, causing shocks to the defendant.