In the news

■ Nathalia Bruno, 24, of Newark, N.J., escaped from her car before it filled with water after she attempted to drive through a flooded area, but she was then swept into an underground storm drain and had to survive a mile-long ride before being “shot out” into the Passaic River, Rutherford Police Chief John Russo said.

■ Janak Amin, a veteran sergeant with the Hillsborough County, Fla., sheriff’s office, was fired and charged with a felony after aiming his gun inches from a handcuffed Black man’s head and threatening to kill him if the man did not give his name, authorities said.

■ Willie Necaise Jr., 77, of rural Hancock County, Miss., who faces a prison sentence after pleading guilty to illegally making distilled spirits, owes $1.2 million in unpaid federal and state excise taxes on his moonshine, a federal prosecutor said.

■ Walter Matulis Jr., 64, of Columbia, S.C., accused of making an obscene gesture and then pointing a gun at several “Black Lives Matter” demonstrators as he drove past a protest at the Capitol, has been charged with pointing a firearm at a person, police said.

■ Emanuel Tenner III, 22, of Natchez, Miss., is facing an attempted murder charge after being accused of shooting and wounding a fellow construction worker in a motel parking lot in Brattleboro, Vt., police said.

■ Matt White, fire chief of Baxter, Tenn., said that while a male resident escaped an early morning house fire, a woman and a dog were trapped inside and died despite the efforts of firefighters to rescue them and contain the blaze.

■ Kathleen Bonnar said she tried to approach U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, with a caribou heart as other protesters carried a banner reading “Heartless Sullivan,” but they were blocked from rushing the stage during Sullivan’s reelection campaign kickoff event in Anchorage.

■ Clinton Miller, 49, of Mokane, Mo., accused of threatening to use a gun at a Jefferson City hospital unless he was allowed to see his ex-wife and daughter, was charged with terroristic threatening, police said.

■ Jeffrey Maddrey, chief of the New York City Police Department’s Community Affairs bureau, made a public appeal on Twitter for an end to violence, writing, “This. Must. STOP!” after a 1-year-old boy was killed and three men were wounded when two gunmen opened fire at a cookout in a Brooklyn park.