In the news
■ Vidam Perevertilov, 52, a Lithuanian sailor who fell overboard from a cargo ship delivering supplies to the Pitcairn Islands in the south Pacific Ocean, credited a piece of “sea rubbish” for saving his life when he used a discarded fishing buoy to stay afloat for 16 hours until his crew mates realized he was missing and went back to find him.
■ Mardis Jones, a Mississippi man who ran the nonprofit Tunica County Housing Inc., was charged with embezzling more than $750,000 from a program intended to help low-income residents repair their homes, state auditors said.
■ Al Xiques, a police major in Pembroke Pines, Fla., said a naked man carrying a Bible who was knocking on doors at an apartment complex was shot and wounded by an unidentified person who called 911 to surrender as officers arrived at the scene.
■ Maggie Murphy, a police officer in Fayetteville, Ga., along with officer Michael Perry, who was off-duty, were recorded on body-camera video pulling a driver and a passenger from a fiery wreck and quickly extinguishing the passenger’s burning clothing.
■ Elizabeth Dembo, the pharmacist-in-charge at a drugstore in Creve Coeur, Mo., was charged with filling prescriptions for dangerous amounts of opiates, ignoring obviously altered prescriptions and improperly billing Medicaid and Medicare, federal prosecutors said.
■ Ronald Griffith, 58, of Natchitoches, La., was charged with unlawful disposal of human remains after the body of a woman who had been dead for several months but never reported by Griffith, was found at the scene of a trailer fire, authorities said.
■ Kim Broekhuizen, a spokesman for the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, said the school’s library was temporarily closed as a precaution so it could be fumigated after staff members found three venomous Mediterranean recluse spiders in a basement storage area.
■ Jerry Johnson, 21, was captured by federal marshals at a home in Montgomery, Ala., and faces a capital murder charge in the shooting of a high-school basketball coach during a robbery outside a Selma barbecue restaurant.
■ Terry Rice, 64, of St. Clair, Mo., a school bus driver accused of using homemade restraints on a nonverbal child several times while driving him between home and school, faces child abuse, kidnapping and assault charges, prosecutors said.