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▪ Keyon Harrold ,a prominent jazz musician, said an unidentified woman, whose phone was later found in the car of an Uber driver, accosted his 14-yearold son in the lobby of a boutique hotel in New York City, falsely accusing the teen of taking the phone and demanding he return it.

▪ Cyril Ramaphosa , the president of South Africa, has reimposed a ban on alcohol sales, imposed a nighttime curfew and ordered the closure of all bars, beaches and public swimming pools as part of new restrictions as the country battles a resurgence of the coronavirus.

▪ Marcell Foster , 26, of Bel-Ridge, Mo., accused of shooting a 32-year-old man who was found wounded in a parking lot outside a bar on Main Street in downtown St. Charles, faces assault and armed criminal action charges, authorities said.

▪ Ryan Moore , a police spokesman in Hattiesburg, Miss., said two adults, ages 21 and 19, were pronounced dead at the scene while a baby in their vehicle was injured and taken to a hospital after their car collided with an Amtrak train at a city intersection.

▪ John Frank Snow , 51, of Monroe, Ga., was arrested, a 26-year-old accomplice was killed and a corrections officer wounded after officers exchanged gunfire with the two men as they tried to smuggle contraband into a state prison, investigators said.

▪ Georges Yaghmour , 39, of Montreal, was arrested in Florida on a cocaine trafficking charge that federal authorities said was tied to a broader effort to transport 3,300 pounds of the drug from Peru to Vermont.

▪ Robert Lognion , 60, of Lake Charles, La., already a convicted sex offender, was sentenced to 100 years in prison after being convicted for sexual battery and other crimes involving 9- and 10-year-old girls who were visiting his home in 2017, prosecutors said.

▪ Mary Mast , 29, and her husband, James, 28, both of Lincoln, Mo., whose 4-yearold daughter died in what authorities described as a “religious- type episode” intended to remove a “demon,” entered innocent pleas to child endangerment charges and were denied permission to attend the child’s funeral.

▪ Fabian Hasler , 20, a student from Graz, Austria, called it a “bit of normalcy” that was “like a shot of heroin” after health officials decided that the country’s ski resorts could remain open as Austria imposed its third national lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic.