In the news

■ Jessica Regnante of Turtles Fly Too, a nonprofit group that provides air transport to rescue endangered species, said volunteers overcame a Thanksgiving odyssey of rough weather and mechanical setbacks and finally got 30 “cold-stunned” Kemp’s ridley sea turtles safely from Cape Cod, Mass., to New Orleans.

■ Ryan T. Carleton , 43, of Piscataquis County, Maine, faces charges of animal cruelty and violating the conditions of his jail release in the theft of his mother’s car after his father’s cat was killed with a frying pan on Thanksgiving.

■ Akeyah Daniels , 26, of Vicksburg, Miss., was arrested on a charge of drive-by shooting, accused of twice shooting at a man in the parking lot of an apartment building after witnesses said the two argued over a parking space.

■ Christina Lynn Francis , 41, of Waldorf, Md., fatally shot her husband, 50-year-old Timothy Eugene Francis, a longtime detective for the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., and then killed herself, according to the Charles County sheriff’s office.

■ Sgt. Joni Money of Mulga, Ala., said a man was walking in the woods behind his mother’s home, came upon a metal building overtaken by brush and managed to get inside to check out what was in there, only to discover skeletal human remains.

■ Kimberly Finch , spokesperson for the Bureau of Land Management, said the agency received “credible reports” that a mysterious silver monolith placed in the Utah desert has disappeared less than 10 days after it was spotted by wildlife biologists performing a helicopter survey.

■ George Douglas , acting police chief in Grenada, Miss., said at least 11 people were hurt though no arrests were made in a mass shooting at the SMS Biker Club on Mississippi 8, where police found stolen property and guns when they responded.

■ Otto Braided Hair of the Northern Cheyenne, a descendant of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre, spoke before Colorado state Capitol commissioners before they voted 7-2 to replace a toppled Civil War statue with a sculpture of an American Indian woman mourning the atrocities against her people.

■ Bob Kendrick , president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Mo., which is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the leagues’ founding, announced a 10-day closure to protect “our team and valued patrons” after two staff members tested positive for covid-19.