In the news

■ Marvin Cornett, a 99-year-old World War II veteran and former paratrooper, was presented with a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star during a medals ceremony outside an American Legion Post in Auburn, Calif., with his daughter saying her father never believed his actions in battle warranted any credit.

■ Collin Arnold, director of the New Orleans Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, completed a 60-day suspension imposed after he got into a wreck with a city-owned vehicle and was charged with drunken driving.

■ Tashnuva Anan Shishir, 29, who said she was both nervous and emotional, became the first Bangladeshi transgender news anchor, reading a three-minute bulletin for a satellite television station in Dhaka, breaking into tears when she finished as her colleagues cheered.

■ Henry Gruno, the former director of the Mississippi Veterans Memorial Cemetery, faces up to 10 years in prison and $5,000 in fines after being accused of using state Veterans Affairs credit and fuel cards to embezzle about $14,000, state auditors said.

■ Tayland Rahim, 28, of Kansas City, Mo., still hospitalized after being accused of firing several shots with an assault-style rifle at a Missouri State Highway Patrol office before he was shot by troopers, was charged with two counts of unlawful use of a weapon.

■ Prayuth Chan-ocha, Thailand’s prime minister, asked about a possible Cabinet shuffle as he fielded questions during a news conference, told reporters to mind their business and grabbed a bottle of disinfectant to douse the front row before leaving.

■ Ashley Roever, 32, of Bethalto, Ill., a former police officer, faces a drunken driving charge involving an accidental death after investigators accused her of driving a pickup into the rear of an SUV that had stopped at a railroad crossing, killing the driver.

■ Robert Bailey of Los Angeles, a special effects worker who pleaded guilty to providing pyrotechnic effects for the movie “The Poison Rose” despite a felony conviction that barred him from such work, was sentenced to 30 months in prison, prosecutors said.

■ Stewart-Allen Clark, a Baptist pastor in Malden, Mo., is on leave and seeking counseling after giving a 22-minute sermon that chastised married women who “let themselves go” and held up former first lady Melania Trump as the pinnacle of feminine beauty.