• Nicholas Street, a Utah Highway Patrol sergeant, said a restaurant owner's wife suffered minor injuries and had to be pulled from the wreckage after a speeding tractor-trailer skidded off a snowy highway and flattened the roadside restaurant in Wellington.
• George Tsourovakas, a New York police detective, said a 34-year-old man was arrested after he entered a Brooklyn restaurant and attacked three employees with a hammer, fatally beating the chef and critically injuring the other two.
• Leslie Ramsey, an investigator with the Limestone County, Ala., sheriff's office, is suing Sheriff Mike Blakely and other county officials claiming that she was demoted after she complained that Chief Deputy Fred Sloss fondled her when she and her boyfriend visited Sloss at his home.
• Gina Martin, 26, who chased down a man who took a photo up her skirt at a London music festival, is nearing the finish line in her fight to make upskirt voyeurism illegal in England and Wales after Parliament approved the measure, which still must be signed by Queen Elizabeth.
• Willie McCoy, a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper assigned to Gov. Bill Haslam's protective detail at the governor's residence, was demoted after investigators determined that for several months he used painkillers and repeatedly fell asleep on duty.
• Elizabeth Hayes Cox, 61, convicted of falsely claiming to have a son so she could collect more than $113,000 in veterans and Social Security benefits, was sentenced to 14 months in prison by a federal judge in Raleigh, N.C., and must make full restitution.
• Gary Ginn, the coroner in Fayette County, Ky., said a driver, who died in a wrong-way crash that also killed a vacationing Michigan family of five on an interstate in Lexington, had a blood-alcohol content more than three times the legal limit.
• Debbie Siers-Hill, 63, of Virginia Beach, Va., who pleaded guilty to possessing deadly ricin but denied poisoning her boyfriend, who died in 2016 of "undetermined" causes, was sentenced to nearly three years in prison.
• Ashim Mitra, a University of Missouri at Kansas City pharmacy professor, resigned a day ahead of a hearing to review complaints that he coerced foreign graduate students to perform personal tasks like caring for his dog and mowing his lawn, chores one student called "slave labor."
A Section on 01/17/2019