In the news

■ Franky Zapata, 40, successfully touched down in Britain at the end of his second attempt to cross the English Channel from France while riding a hoverboard, a journey that took him 22 minutes and during which he reached speeds of up to 110 mph.

■ Mitch McConnell, 77, U.S. Senate majority leader, was recovering and “will continue to work from home” in Louisville, Ky., after tripping on his outdoor patio and suffering a shoulder fracture during the Senate’s five-week recess, his spokesman said.

■ Khaled el-Anany, Egyptian antiquities minister, expects the first-ever restoration work on the gold-gilded outermost coffin of pharaoh Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus to take at least eight months ahead of the opening of the new Grand Egyptian Museum near Cairo next year.

■ Vicki Anderson, an FBI agent, said investigators’ jobs were made easier when a Cleveland bank robbery suspect handed a teller a note demanding money that was written on the back of a document from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles bearing his name and address.

■ Kevon Watkins, a Georgia teen, was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of murder for killing his sister when she argued with him after he changed his family’s WiFi password, putting her in a chokehold that he didn’t release for more than 10 minutes, authorities said.

■ Taylor Harris was fined $600 and ordered to pay another $500 in restitution in Missouri after her dog mauled Gunther, a retired Ringling Bros. circus pony reportedly valued at $25,000, so severely that it had to be euthanized.

■ James Flannel, 37, of St. Louis faces life in prison after pleading guilty to one count of discharging a firearm in furtherance of carjacking in the shooting death of a cabdriver in whose minivan Flannel later drove off, prosecutors said.

■ Sam Bent, a Vermont man accused of arranging hundreds of anonymous drug deals, was sentenced to five years in federal prison for a conviction stemming from the Justice Department’s first undercover operation targeting dark-Web drug sales.

■ Clauvino da Silva, a Brazilian gang leader, was discovered by authorities trying to escape from prison by disguising himself as his 19-year-old daughter, dressing in a mask, wig and pink shirt featuring a cartoon image of doughnuts, and attempting to walk out of the penitentiary in her place, apparently planning to leave her inside.