In the news

■ Brad King, a sheriff’s captain in Baldwin County, Ga., said a bachelor party contest to see who could stay underwater the longest ended in death when a 23-yearold man drowned at Lake Sinclair when none of the more than a dozen attendees realized he hadn’t resurfaced. ■ John Peal III, 14, of Olive Branch, Miss., missing for four days after going to meet someone he had contacted using a video game-centered chat program, showed up at an Illinois fire station after finding out on social media that his parents were looking for him.

■ Sandy Osborn of Florence, Ala., got an unexpected wedding invitation after she found a plastic bag containing an engagement ring, a bank card and a driver’s license on a Florida beach and returned it to a Tennessee man who had been searching for it so he could propose to his girlfriend.

■ Jacob Gabriel, 23, accused of stealing an idling car from a San Antonio gas station and then using a handgun found in the vehicle to fatally shoot a person who pursued him, faces murder, vehicle theft and firearm theft counts, police said.

■ Todd George, a fire captain in Flagstaff, Ariz., said a special team was called to rescue a man who had been trapped for two days after he crawled into a storm drain and fell through a series of pipes, suffering injuries that left him unable to move.

■ Mike Lopez, a Los Angeles police spokesman, said a driver shot into a vehicle, fatally injuring a 23-year-old motorist whose car then struck and killed a pedestrian, and the shooter’s vehicle slammed into a bicyclist as the gunman sped away.

■ Jonathan Roselle, 33, a police officer in South Whitehall, Pa., for about eight months, was charged with voluntary manslaughter after shooting a man who ignored his demands to stop jumping on people’s vehicles, prosecutors said.

■ Delano Grangruth, 58, faces second-degree murder and arson charges after telling police in Norfolk, Va., that he doused his disabled 61-year-old wife in gasoline, set her on fire and burned her alive, investigators said. ■ Patrick O’Keefe, executive director of the Maryland Republican Party, said he forgot to notify the national committee that the state party had changed its Twitter account name, enabling a pornography site to assume the previous name and send national website users to a feed of “Sexy Car Babes” for about six months.