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▪ David Prater, district attorney for Oklahoma County, Okla., called it “unfortunate” that he couldn’t find an applicable felony statute and instead charged two former jail workers and their supervisor with misdemeanors for forcing handcuffed inmates to repeatedly listen to the children’s song “Baby Shark” for hours.

▪ Jerome Adams, the U.S. surgeon general, was cited by a Honolulu police officer for being in a closed park “looking at the view, taking pictures” in August while he was in Hawaii helping with surge testing amid a spike in coronavirus cases.

▪ Jose Rivas, an attorney for the family of a 16-yearold sophomore who was on probation requiring him to be on good behavior while in class and was later arrested for refusing to wear a mask at the school in Winter Springs, Fla., called the arrest “government abuse” of a teen suffering from panic attacks.

▪ Julio Cesar Muillo-Arce, 42, a Mexican man convicted of human smuggling in the deaths of two people he brought across the U. S.- Mexican border in a small boat that he abandoned near Imperial Beach, Calif, was sentenced to nearly seven years in prison.

▪ Nico Delafuente, 30, faces a capital murder charge after police in Fort Worth said he stole the car of a woman who was in a shared- custody meeting in a parking lot with her 1-year-old son and the baby’s father, then used the vehicle to run over and kill the child.

▪ Donald Lewinski, 65, of West Seneca, N.Y., accused of shoving an 80-year-old man for not wearing a mask while inside a bar, faces a negligent homicide charge after the older man fell, hit his head on the floor and later died, prosecutors said.

▪ Michael Cooper, 42, of Bunnell, Fla., accused of using an assault-style rifle to threaten a U.S. census worker who stopped by his house for the nationwide count and then shooting into the ground after the worker left, was arrested on an aggravated assault count.

▪ John Hagee, 80, a San Antonio megachurch pastor and conservative activist whose sermons are broadcast throughout the United States and Canada, has been diagnosed with covid-19, his son announced during church services.

▪ Zhao Li, 60, convicted of manslaughter after he fatally shot a relative and chopped the body into 108 pieces in 2015 in Vancouver, Canada, was sentenced to 10 years in prison after a judge said Li showed remorse for the crime.