In the news

■ Karen Briceno Gonzalez , an election worker in Orlando, Fla., said she rushed outside to give a ballot to a woman who was in labor when she arrived at the polling site and refused to go to the hospital until she was able to cast her vote.

■ Brian Kemp , the Republican governor of Georgia, and his wife, Marty, are both quarantining after being exposed to someone who tested positive for covid-19 on the same day that U.S. Rep. Drew Ferguson, R-Ga., announced he also had tested positive after appearing at a rally with Kemp.

■ Bradley Tomes , 25, a former bird-keeper convicted of stealing a pair of Humboldt penguins from a zoo in northwest England and selling them for $11,600 on Facebook, was sentenced to 32 months in prison, prosecutors said.

■ Greg Corble , a spokesman for the Alabama State Police, said a trooper in Decatur was able to locate the driver of a scrap truck that dropped metal shards along a highway stretching across three counties, flattening the tires of more than 50 vehicles, including some that had all four tires flattened.

■ Leonard Shoulders had just strolled up to a bus stop in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx, N.Y., when a hole opened up in the sidewalk, plunging the 33-year-old into an underground vault teeming with rats where he was stuck for about 30 minutes until he could be pulled free.

■ Frank Glaw , reptile curator for Bavarian Natural History Collections ZSM in Germany, said — after several specimens of Voeltzkow’s chameleon, last seen on Madagascar a century ago, were found alive on the island — that the chameleons, which live only during the rainy season, are “mayflies among vertebrates.”

■ Suzanne Muscara , 38, of Burlington, Maine, convicted of mailing a letter containing a white powder and the image of a stick figure with the letter X for eyes to the Maine home of Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, was sentenced to 30 months in prison, prosecutors said.