In the news

■ Corey Jurgensen, 40, of Tampa, Fla., is doing her bit to cheer up neighbors who might be stuck indoors during the coronavirus pandemic by donning a 7-foot-tall inflatable unicorn costume to jog, jump, dance and prance in the area near her home.

■ Adam Higginbotham has won the William E. Colby Award, a $5,000 prize named after the late CIA director and given for an outstanding book on military or intelligence history, for Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster.

■ John Robert Orr, 74, faces seven aggravated assault counts after being accused of pointing a BB gun at golfers who drove their carts on the putting greens and over a wooden bridge that’s designed for walking at a course in Palm Coast, Fla., authorities said.

■ Adam Allred, 30, of Richmond, Mo., was seriously injured and taken via helicopter to a hospital after his vehicle was struck by a train, killing a 32-year-old passenger, when he drove around a crossing arm in Camden, police said.

■ S. Kent Fannon and his wife, Diane, who both graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 1974 and now live in Texas, have made a $6 million gift that will be used to renovate and expand Ballentine Hall, the main building of the university’s business school.

■ Ethan Broad, 27, of Moorhead, Minn., faces a second-degree murder charge after being accused of killing a 19-year-old woman, dismembering her with a saw in his garage and disposing the body parts in dumpsters outside his apartment, investigators said.

■ Cyrus Ben, chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, which has 11,000 members in 10 of the state’s 82 counties, said he has tested positive for covid-19 and is urging people to follow the advice of health professionals to slow the spread of the disease.