In the news

■ Trevor Wild, an officer with the Franklin County, Mo., sheriff’s office, said a 38-year-old man was arrested after he fled from officers during a traffic stop, drove through a hayfield and ditched his car before attempting to swim down the Bourbeuse River.

■ Anne Carson, 69, a Canadian essayist, poet and author of the 1986 nonfiction book Eros the Bittersweet, will be honored this year with one of Spain’s prestigious Princess of Asturias Awards, an annual literature award named after the heir to the Spanish throne.

■ S.A. Bobde, India’s chief justice, along with other justices of the Supreme Court, banned the annual ceremonial procession of Lord Jagannath, a favorite deity of millions of Indians, for the first time in almost three centuries as the coronavirus pandemic persists.

■ Timothy Riley, the director and curator for the National Churchill Museum in Fulton, Mo., said a statue of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill has been temporarily removed so it can be cleaned and protected during construction at the museum.

■ David Lee, 29, was arrested in Gwinnett County, Ga., in the fatal shootings of three homeless people — a woman and two men — who were killed over a span of two weeks, according to a statement from an Atlanta police spokesman.

■ Jessical Lani Rich, the president of the Visitor Aloha Society of Hawaii, said her organization has reached out to the family of Kristopher Oliphant, a Tulsa man, who was found dead in the Pacific Ocean after he checked out of his Honolulu hotel room before completing the state’s 14day quarantine for tourists.

■ Mike Williams, the sheriff of Jacksonville, Fla., said “This type of act will not be tolerated by our agency or our community” after a mannequin dressed in a police uniform and a pig mask was found suspended by a rope from an overpass.

■ Elizabell Marquez, head of marketing for Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, which owns the Eskimo Pie dessert, said the company has recognized that the term Eskimo is “inappropriate” and will be changing the brand name and marketing of the chocolate-covered ice cream.

■ Peter Henry, 61, of Chalmette, La., was sentenced in a Hattiesburg, Miss., court to 11 years and three months in prison for drug trafficking after he pleaded guilty to delivering 4 ounces of heroin to a person in Gulfport.