• Lucas Papademos, 69, the former Greek prime minister who was injured by a mail-bomb explosion in his car, was recuperating well, health officials said, although he will remain in intensive care.
• Shadrach Yasiah, 19, won't get a police citation for driving into a freshly poured concrete road in Lincoln, Neb., and getting his car stuck, authorities said, but he could still face a $10,000 bill for the removal of his car and the repouring of the concrete.
• Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas drew criticism from the national gun-control group Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence after he went to a range for target practice and then quipped that he was going to carry his target sheet around "in case I see any reporters."
• Sgt. Cortez Stafford, an Atlanta fire spokesman, praised the employees of a grocery store on the city's south side for evacuating people when someone ignited an indoor display of fireworks, filling the building with smoke and leading some shoppers to believe a gunman was at large.
• Bikram Choudhury, 73, the founder of a style of "hot yoga," faces arrest after a California judge issued a warrant in an unpaid $6.8 million judgment awarded to a former attorney who alleged that she was sexually harassed by Choudhury and fired after investigating allegations that Choudhury had raped a student.
• Ronald Thompson was arrested in the theft of a truck and a 5-foot-tall, black-and-white-checkered statue of a swan, police said, after surveillance video showed a naked man holding a bucket in front of himself while trying to get into a Lakeland, Fla., storage center and then driving off with the truck and swan.
• Brian Brandt, 40, of Reno, Nev., faces assault and other charges, accused of driving a truck stolen from his former employer into the gate of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch and causing "extensive damage," although the brothel's owner said no one inside was hurt.
• Desmond Ricks, 51, walked out of the Michigan prison where he'd been held for 25 years, freed after a judge threw out the case against him because of tests showing that the bullets presented as evidence at his trial weren't the ones taken from the body of the victim.
• Joseph Rich, 27, pleaded guilty to manslaughter for stabbing Juan Legarda Jr. with a bayonet on New Year's Day in Rapid City, S.D., and faces up to 10 years in prison.
A Section on 05/27/2017