In the news
■ Darryl Forte, sheriff of Jackson County, Mo., said he’s willing to discuss a jail policy that requires attorneys to remove their underwire bras before meeting face to face with clients after about 75 protesters gathered at the county courthouse and chanted, “We need support!”
■ Stanley Hart was on his way to work when he spotted a burning house in Picayune, Miss., and, with the help of a neighbor, threw a cinder block through a window to enable a 15-yearold girl to escape from her smoke-filled room.
■ Henri Piette, 64, accused of abducting his stepdaughter and holding her captive for 19 years in Mexico and elsewhere while fathering her nine children, faces life in prison after being convicted of kidnapping and other charges by a federal court jury in Muskogee, Okla.
■ Mike Porras, a spokesman for Colorado’s wildlife agency, said that mule deer are usually docile but that that behavior is not guaranteed as shown by a doe with two fawns that attacked and injured an 85-year-old woman who got too close while walking her dog.
■ Dvon Robertson, 27, accused of intentionally setting fire to a dozen vacant houses in Memphis, was arrested and charged with 15 counts of arson after witnesses said he was seen jumping a fence while holding a bottle of lighter fluid, investigators said.
■ Jody Lambert was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after being convicted of participating in the abuse of a young, autistic woman who said he and others “made my life a living hell,” by keeping her in a cage, beating and verbally abusing her in Tangipahoa Parish, La.
■ Lauren Mulvihill, an Uber driver who learned 89-year-old Ronald Dembner of Stockbridge, Ga., didn’t have any immediate family when she drove him home from the hospital, posted a plea on social media that drew responses from hundreds of people to help care for the veteran.
■ Charme Allen, district attorney in Knox County, Tenn., is reviewing all pending cases investigated by Grayson Fritts, a former detective who, as a Baptist pastor, said in sermons posted online that the government should execute gay people.
■ Joe Crain, a broadcast meteorologist for WICS in Springfield, Ill., who was taken off the air after openly criticizing an unpopular “Code Red” weather alert system that he described as alarmist and imprecise, has been fired, his employer said.