• Robert Lockard, 94, a decorated veteran who served in northern France and central Europe during World War II, was honored with a high school diploma from Circleville, Ohio, High School, 74 years after he dropped out to join the U.S. Army.
• Lorin Nielsen, sheriff of Bannock County, Idaho, issued a public safety warning after several parents openly armed with assault-style rifles and a pistol responded to the scene of a school lockdown, calling it a "very bad idea" that could lead police to confuse them with active shooters.
• Bryan Whittle, a member of the Oklahoma Air National Guard, described himself as "just an average guy who had the right tool to help at the right time," after he and another armed bystander fatally shot a gunman at an Oklahoma City restaurant.
• Mamoudou Gassama, 22, a migrant from Mali who scaled an apartment building to save a 4-year-old dangling from a fifth-floor balcony, was lauded as a hero by French President Emmanuel Macron, who rewarded him with French citizenship and a job as a firefighter.
• Phillip Huffman, 29, of Jennings, Mo., convicted of killing his 23-year-old girlfriend when he "blacked out" during a fit of rage by stabbing her at least 180 times just eight days after she gave birth to their son, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, prosecutors said.
• Lee Myung-hee, the wife of Korean Air Chairman Cho Yang-ho who was sentenced to a year in prison for an onboard "nut rage" tantrum that delayed a flight, has been summoned by South Korea police investigating allegations that she abused employees.
• Robert Regalbuto, police chief of Wildwood, N.J., said a video posted online of an officer punching a 20-year-old woman as he took her into custody for underage drinking and having alcohol on a public beach was "alarming," but he doesn't want to "rush to any judgment."
• Maleah Johnson, a senior at Etowah High School in Attalah, Ala., got A's in every class over her final semesters to win entries into a car dealership contest and won a free car that she'll use to go to college in the fall.
A Section on 05/29/2018