In the news
■ Victoria Price, a television news reporter in Tampa, Fla., said she is undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous tumor, her thyroid and a couple of lymph nodes, after a viewer noticed a lump on Price’s neck and emailed her that she should get it checked out.
■ Ricky Flynt, the alligator program coordinator for the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, said a man was treated for several scratches in an encounter with an alligator while he was swimming at Ross Barnett Reservoir in Brandon, Miss.
■ Rene Boucher, the neighbor who lost his temper and attacked Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul in 2017, breaking six of his ribs, has been sentenced to an additional 13 months confinement after prosecutors had appealed the initial sentence, arguing it was unreasonably light.
■ Darren Beams, an officer with the West Alabama Human Trafficking Task Force, said several women were rescued from an Alabama motel as part of an undercover human trafficking investigation in Tuscaloosa that resulted in two Georgia men facing felony drug and prostitution charges.
■ Matthew Brummett and Charles Prichard, two Kansas City, Mo., police officers, were indicted by a grand jury on excessive-force charges in the arrest of Breona Hill, a transgender Black woman, after two witnesses to the arrest stepped forward, prosecutors said.
■ Ramon Roque Monreal, 33, of El Paso, Texas, was arrested in the fatal shooting of a teenage girl and the wounding of an unidentified man after a fight broke out at the scene of an illegal street race in Hollywood, Calif., Los Angeles police said.
■ Su Hall and her husband, Jason, the owners of Daisy, a St. Bernard, who collapsed while descending Scafell Pike — England’s tallest mountain — say she’s recovering well after 16 volunteers from the Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team carried the 121-pound dog to safety on a stretcher.
■ Daryl Ross, the pastor of Warrior Creek Missionary Baptist Church in Marshall County, Ala., said more than 40 churchgoers, including himself, tested positive for coronavirus after the congregation held a series of religious services featuring a guest pastor over the course of several days.
■ Mark Bowen, the Richmond County, Ga., coroner, said a 25-year-old woman and her twin 10-month-old children were pronounced dead after sheriff’s deputies pulled their bodies from a vehicle found submerged in a pond in Augusta.