In the news

■ Timothy Warren, a FedEx driver in Portland, Ore., who is black, was justified in punching Joseph Magnuson after Magnuson yelled racial slurs and tried to hit him first, prosecutors said, noting the Multnomah County medical examiner determined Magnuson was in “extremely poor health” prior to the encounter, and his fall after the punch to the head aggravated existing conditions.

■ Matthew Hedges, a University of Durham, England, doctoral student who was arrested at Dubai’s airport May 5 after spending two weeks in the United Arab Emirates studying the impact of the Arab Spring uprisings, has been sentenced to life in prison for espionage and jeopardizing the military, security and economy of the county, according to his wife.

■ Antonio Burgos, 48, of Portland, Ore., has pleaded guilty to a bribery charge after he tried to pay a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent $3,000 to deport his estranged wife and her child.

■ Dr. James Godwin of Fort Worth, Texas, is challenging the federal government after authorities seized a 70 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus skull from his fossil collection under the National Stolen Property Act.

■ Austin Pape, 21, of Dyersville, Iowa, must serve two to five years of probation after he acknowledged in a Dubuque courtroom earlier this week to driving onto and damaging the eastern Iowa baseball field on Jan. 22 made famous by the 1989 movie “Field of Dreams,” which is visited by thousands of people each year.

■ George Gordon, Sotheby Auction’s co-chairman of Old Masters, says experts can’t be “100 percent sure,” but an examination and restoration of the oil sketch Study of a Head of a Young Man by Rembrandt may contain the artist’s fingerprints preserved in the paint.

■ Bob Gualtieri, Pinellas County, Fla., sheriff and chairman of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission, says he now believes trained, volunteer teachers should have access to guns so they can stop shooters who get past other safeguards — a proposal that both the state teachers union and PTA oppose.