In the news
■ Ida Nelson of Igiugig, a remote village in southwest Alaska, said a neighbor made more than 30 phone calls to round up people just before midnight to use their vehicle headlights to illuminate a pitch-black runway so that a medical transport plane could land to evacuate a sick child to an Anchorage hospital.
■ Barb Solish tweeted “2020 has been rough, but yesterday was Supreme,” after 87-year-old Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a family friend who is being treated for cancer, made a rare public appearance to officiate at Solish’s outdoor wedding to Danny Kazin.
■ Kasey Brislane, 13, a Harwood Heights, Ill., autistic girl with hypersensitive hearing, was awarded the Girl Scouts’ Medal of Honor for hearing the faint cries of a 68-year-old neighbor who became trapped beneath a car last winter after slipping and falling on ice.
■ Sam Brown, a Jackson, Miss., police spokesman, said a 6-year-old girl on a trip to visit the Jackson Zoo with her mother and another man was hospitalized for gunshot wounds after she and her mother were shot by the man, who later committed suicide.
■ Martin Gugino, the 75-year-old hospitalized with a severe head injury after being shoved to the ground by two Buffalo, N.Y., police officers during a demonstration in June, is out of the hospital and plans to continue his activism, saying, “My life is headed in a new direction.”
■ John Burke, a wildlife ranger in Katherine, an Australian Outback community, said rangers trapped a 14.5-foot saltwater crocodile, the biggest caught in the area in years, from a river flowing through a remote nature park popular with tourists.
■ Taylor Scarbrough, the mayor of Nashville, Ga., surrendered to face theft charges after being accused of using a contractor’s excavator without permission and causing thousands of dollars in damage, state investigators said.
■ Henry Barr, 51, faces attempted murder and other counts after being accused of chasing the car of a woman he had been dating into a police station parking lot in Troy, Ala., where he shot the woman in the hand before he was arrested, authorities said.
■ Bill Cassidy, 62, a doctor and Republican U.S. senator from Louisiana, said that he has recovered from covid-19 and is resuming his normal congressional workload after experiencing only modest symptoms of the illness caused by the coronavirus.