In the news

■ John Lilliston, 23, a student at Georgia Southern University, said that a dare from his friends prompted him to swim more than a mile across the St. Simons Sound, a feat that took him just over 40 minutes.

■ Anthony Gignac, 48, who was born in Colombia but was adopted by a Michigan family when he was young, was called a “mastermind” by a federal judge in Miami who sentenced him to 18 years in prison for conning investors out of millions of dollars while impersonating Saudi Sultan Bin Khalid Al-Saud.

■ Ignas, an 11-months-old boy identified only by his first name, was the first to reach the finish line of Lithuania’s 20th annual International Children’s Day baby race in which parents waved toys and banged baby food cans to spur their children, ages 7-11 months, to crawl faster across a red carpet. ■ Michael Comeau, 47, principal of a Louisiana Catholic school, was arrested in Washington, D.C., where he was with students on a school field trip, after police received a complaint about “an intoxicated man refusing to pay his bill” at a strip club.

■ Tony Rossi, a veteran who used to provide music during homecoming events at an air terminal at Fort Hood, Texas, said a room in the terminal will be renamed to honor Elizabeth Laird, who until she died in 2015 at age 83 had hugged thousands of soldiers as they deployed to war zones.

■ Kenleigh Madison, 8, was honored in Atmore, Ala., for helping save the life of her grandmother, who has emphysema, by calling 911 when the woman’s breathing machine stopped working and directing emergency crews around an impassable driveway.

■ Buddy Bryan, coroner in Muscogee County, Ga., said Larry Alvin Long, 51, of Phenix City, Ala., who worked just across the state line at a Piggly Wiggly in Georgia, was found dead in the grocery store’s freezer a little over an hour after surveillance footage showed him walking into it alone. ■ Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor, will have lunch with an anonymous bidder who offered more than $4.5 million to dine with him as part of an auction to raise money for a foundation that helps the homeless in San Francisco. ■ Dalia Jimenez, 20, was charged with felony injury to a child after police in Grand Prairie, Texas, said she doused her 5-year-old stepdaughter’s face with rubbing alcohol and set it on fire as a punishment.