In the news
■ Carolina Delgado said “yes!” when her boyfriend, Romain Zago, pulled over by Miami Beach police during a traffic stop, dropped to one knee, turned toward her and held out a box with a ring inside, telling her, “I am out of speech. I don’t even know what to say.”
■ Anna Conkey, 31, was holding a baby and waving an unloaded gun as she was tackled to the ground by congregants after interrupting an Easter service in San Diego and threatening to blow up the church, police said.
■ Issac Darden and Garrett Howington, two 10th-graders competing in a high school fishing tournament at Pickwick Lake, Ala., rescued two other competitors and an adult who began calling for help when their boat began sinking.
■ Jody Anderson and Enzo Niebuhr were arrested on charges of defacing a public monument after they were accused of climbing the North Carolina Women of the Confederacy monument in Raleigh, N.C., and placing Ku Klux Klan hoods on several statues during a civil-rights protest.
■ Lamar Thurman, 29, was hospitalized in critical condition after being shot by a father who, along with several friends, chased him for 5 miles along a street to Lantana, Fla., after he stole a car with the shooter’s 6-year-old inside, Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputies said.
■ James Gilland, 43, of Springfield, Mo., was charged with felony stealing after, police said, he took the spare tires from 18 Jeep Wrangler and Liberty models to sell the rims for scrap metal and the tires to a car repair shop so he could get money to buy drugs.
■ Bart Freidenberg, 58, a youth wrestling coach from Pickerington, Ohio, pleaded innocent to child endangerment and hazing charges after being accused of not stopping the hazing of a 14-year-old on an all-star team that includes wrestlers from Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania.
■ Michael Smirnoff, 27, a former Tallahassee, Ala., police investigator, pleaded guilty to slamming a handcuffed man to the ground and then slamming the man’s head into his patrol car after the man’s arrest for fleeing on a four-wheeler, federal prosecutors said.
■ Peggy Browning called Mark Owens, 57, of Chalmette, La., a “coward” and “an evil monster” at a court hearing where he pleaded guilty to killing her daughter, Kim Penney, 48, who was his ex-wife, by hiding under Penney’s house with an ax and using it to kill her as she left for work in 2017.