In the news

■ Rachel Avery, 44, whose young French bulldog, Jag, slipped its collar, ran home and was snatched from her porch in West Hollywood, Calif., spent $7,500 and flew to Philadelphia to be reunited with her pet after investigators used rental car information to track down the man who picked it up.

■ Morgan Webb, 23, a St. Louis notary, pleaded guilty to ordering 989 fake covid-19 vaccination record cards from China, sent in a box labeled as thank-you cards, which were intercepted by Customs and Border Protection officers at a shipping hub in Kentucky.

■ Kerry Bell, 48, a homeless man accused of attacking and killing a 70-year-old nurse at a downtown Los Angeles bus stop as she was on her way to work at the LA County-USC Medical Center, was charged with murder, prosecutors said.

■ Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City, called it an “unacceptable” example of the gun violence that is plaguing parts of the city after a bullet fired by a teenager wounded a police officer and the gunman as they scuffled in a Bronx neighborhood.

■ Cynthia Chavez Lamar, whose ancestry includes Hopi, Tewa and Navajo and who is an acting associate director for collections and operations at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, has been named the first Native American woman to lead the museum.

■ Paul Irwin, police chief of Leeds, Ala., said officers found “every square inch” of a camper stuffed with marijuana after the arrests of two California men outside a convenience store led to the discovery of 1,000 pounds of pot stashed throughout the vehicle.

■ Andre Spivey, 48, a former Detroit City Council member who quit after pleading guilty to a bribery scheme involving city towing contracts, acknowledged his “very poor choices” before he was sentenced to two years in prison.

■ Johnson Eustache of Palm Bay, Fla., convicted of fraudulently collecting more than $1.3 million in covid-19 relief funds intended to help small businesses and using the money for personal and real estate investments, was sentenced to five years in prison.

■ Michael Carpinelli, sheriff of Lewis County, N.Y., and a Republican candidate for governor, was accused of violating county ethics rules by using his official letterhead to vouch for the “good character” of a man who pleaded guilty to a charge related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.