In the news
■ Peggy Herman, a race organizer with the Golden Isles Track Club of Brunswick, Ga., said the club realized that “service workers were going to be hit the hardest” in the tourist town, so the group is hosting a “virtual” 5k race to raise funds for hospitality workers who have lost jobs amid the pandemic.
■ Lee William McNutt, a former California business executive, and his companies, Silicon Valley Growth Syndicate and International Direct Mail Consultants, will pay $1.8 million to settle a lawsuit by the state accusing him of sexually harassing a female employee, though a spokesman said McNutt considers the suit to be “baseless.”
■ Brooke Dennis, 33, along with three other women from London, organized volunteers throughout the U.K. to produce more than 3,800 sets of scrubs for health care workers after Britain’s National Health Service was unable to provide enough of the garments.
■ Ken Turnage II, the Planning Commission chairman in Antioch, Calif., was removed from his position by the City Council after he suggested on social media that sick, old and homeless people should be left to meet their “natural course in nature” during the coronavirus pandemic.
■ Alan Goodkin, 29, a tow truck operator in Springfield, Mo., was picking up the vehicle of Matthew Canovi on the shoulder of a highway when the tow truck struck and killed Canovi, police said.
■ Noureddine Elmihnida, an ex-convict in Rabat, Morocco, who delivers groceries and medication to those in need amid the country’s strict lockdown measures, said he saw the pandemic as “an opportunity” for him and others who have lived lives of crime to redeem themselves.
■ Tom Hagen, a Norwegian real state investor and electric company owner, was arrested in the 2018 disappearance of his wife, Anne-Elizabeth Falkevik Hagen, and is being held on suspicion of murder or complicity to murder, police said.
■ Mathieu Caron, a Quebec, Canada, fashion designer, has launched a line of high-end designer masks inspired by the costumes of the Olympic figure skaters he dresses, and he is donating the profits to the World Health Organization in its fight against the coronavirus.
■ Keith Barrett, a St. Louis police sergeant, said a 10-year-old boy, arrested along with a 15-year-old boy and two 14-year-old boys in the armed theft of a woman’s car, is the youngest carjacking suspect in the city in recent years.