In the news
■ Tanaijsha Bruton, who drove up the ramp of a flatbed tow truck that was stopped on a Georgia highway and vaulted into the air before crashing, is glad to be alive as she recovers from several surgeries, and she said, “When I go to sleep, that’s pretty much what I dream about.”
■ Matthew King of Britain will serve at least six years in jail for plotting a terror attack on police or soldiers after being radicalized online by Islamic extremism and being reported by his mother, which the judge praised as a “very bold step … when she had concerns for her son.”
■ Fumio Kishida, prime minister of Japan, ushered out his son as executive secretary amid public outcry when it emerged that he’d held a party at the official residence, with photos showing him posing with guests on a red carpet and one guest lying on the staircase.
■ Olaf Scholz, chancellor of Germany, has called climate protesters’ tactic of gluing themselves to roads “nutty,” and police report a sharp increase in the number of attacks on Last Generation activists by irate motorists.
■ Dennis Francis, Trinidad and Tobago’s U.N. ambassador, was elected president of the General Assembly amid a bang of the gavel and loud applause, and he chose as his theme for the next session “Peace, Prosperity, Progress and Sustainability.”
■ Timothy Craig Jolloff and his wife of Fort Myers, Fla., were charged with stealing $2.14 million in pandemic relief money and using it to buy three pontoon boats, real estate, businesses, home furnishings, outdoor kitchens, a utility vehicle, jewelry and two dogs.
■ Tubtim “Sue” Howson, a Detroit-area woman accused of fleeing to Thailand after killing a college student in a hit-and-run crash, awaits sentencing after pleading no contest to failing to stop at the scene of an accident that resulted in death.
■ Justin Wright, a multiplatinum songwriter and music entrepreneur from Atlanta, was sentenced to life in prison for killing his 20-yearold girlfriend in Iowa in what the woman’s father said was a dispute over $70.
■ Gerard Karam, a U.S. attorney, said nine of Yogi Berra’s 10 World Series rings may have been melted down as authorities announced charges against a ring that stole millions of dollars’ worth of valuables that also include an Andy Warhol silkscreen and a Jackson Pollock painting.