In the news

■ Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, is promising to send a new oak sapling to President Donald Trump after the tree he and Trump planted last year in the White House gardens during Macron’s state visit died, calling it “No big drama. The symbol was to plant it together.”

■ Cody Barlow, 28, of Hulbert, Okla., who used strips of multicolored tape to decorate the tailgate of his pickup like a rainbow gaypride flag and added the message that “Not all country boys are bigots,” said he believes that duct tape “fixes everything, even bigots.”

■ Jamie Rathburn of Greenville, S.C., accused of ignoring a sign-in rule to confront her third-grade child’s bullies in a classroom, was arrested and charged with disturbing schools after she posted on social media a “video rant” about the incident, the Greenville County sheriff’s office said.

■ Birju Kishor Salla, 38, an Indian jeweler convicted of leaving a note with a hijacking threat in the restroom of a plane flying from New Delhi to Mumbai, was sentenced to life in jail and fined $720,000, which will be distributed among the plane’s pilots, crew and passengers.

■ Joseph Silva, a police spokesman in Stockton, Calif., said a 15-year-old girl was cited for child abuse after a passer-by heard cries from a dumpster and contacted the building manager, resulting in the rescue of a newborn boy who still had his umbilical cord attached.

■ Tim Mitchell resigned as sheriff of Webster County, Miss., and faces up to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to felony embezzlement and trafficking in stolen firearms.

■ Gabriel Martinez Cruz, 16, of Lithia Springs, Ga., is being charged as an adult in the death of 17-yearold Gonzalo Lamar Gonzalez-Abara, who was shot as the two teens argued over a video-game controller, Douglas County sheriff’s deputies said.

■ Jessica Henderson, 38, of Des Moines, Iowa, who was accused of binding the hands and feet of her children, ages 9, 5 and 4, to keep them under control, was fined $625 and sentenced to two years of probation, according to court records.

■ Michael Bongiovanni, 44, a former Gwinnett County, Ga., police sergeant who was captured on video hitting a man as he stood with his hands up during a 2017 traffic stop, was sentenced to six months on work release, five months of home detention and nine years of probation.