In the news

■ Josh Swain of Tucson, Ariz., said the enthusiasm “was just incredible” as a couple hundred people converged on a Lincoln, Neb., park, armed themselves with pool noodles and battled over the right to the name Josh after an online joke took on a life of its own, with 5-year-old Josh Vinson Jr. defending his title as the No. 1 Josh.

■ Marie Roussel of the Hangout Festival said it was “really awesome to come back strong” after a pandemic hiatus as more than 40,000 people hit the beach for a weekend of music in Gulf Shores, Ala.

■ Charles Negy, author of a book about “white shaming” and a tenured professor of psychology at the University of Central Florida, will be reinstated after an arbitrator ruled the school failed to show just cause for terminating him over Twitter comments condemned as racist after the murder of George Floyd.

■ Joshua Katz, a Princeton University classics professor embroiled in controversy over comments regarding race, faces dismissal over what the school says was his failure to be forthcoming about a sexual relationship with a student 15 years ago that he has already been punished for, with his lawyer calling it “the culmination of the witch hunt.”

■ Chris Moore of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation called it the continuation of “a worrying trend” as the number of blue crabs in the bay was pegged at the lowest level since tracking began in 1990.

■ Misty Niemeyer of the International Fund for Animal Welfare said “we are optimistic about their journey ahead” as seven stranded Atlantic white-sided dolphins were rescued from the shallow waters of the Herring River in Wellfleet, Mass., and released in deeper waters off Provincetown.