• Joey "Jaws" Chestnut, 35, of California ate 71 wieners and buns in 10 minutes while Miki Sudo, 33, chomped down 31 hot dogs in the same time to secure their respective male/female division titles -- and $10,000 prizes -- at Nathan's Famous annual July Fourth hot-dog-eating contest at Coney Island, N.Y.
• Brad Williams, 59, of Milford, Conn., a descendant of Titanic sinking survivor Ella White, is including White's walking stick, which features an electric light she used to signal for help from a lifeboat, in an auction of thousands of maritime items and plans to use the proceeds to help his children.
• Latoni Daniel, 27, a capital-murder suspect being held at the Coosa County jail in Rockford, Ala., had sex with a male inmate who was working in the jail and deliberately got pregnant hoping to claim rape and get leniency in her case, Sheriff Michael Howell said.
• Will Benny, a police captain in Dothan, Ala., said a 2-year-old boy who slipped out of a home as his parents slept after smoking marijuana, climbed into a car and couldn't get out, dying when temperatures climbed into the mid-90s and the car's cabin overheated.
• Troy Nehls, the sheriff of Fort Bend County, Texas, said deputies are trying to determine why a brother fatally shot his sister and wounded three others before killing himself at a housewarming party they were having after just moving into a new neighborhood.
• Carlos Jimenez Martins, 34, who said he didn't know his girlfriend was pregnant until just before she was arrested on charges that she dumped her newborn in a trash bin at an apartment complex near Boca Raton, Fla., has been granted custody of the baby girl.
• Penelope Stanley, 54, a Mississippi woman accused of leaving three puppies, two of which died, in a hot SUV in an Orlando, Fla., hotel parking lot, was arrested and charged with three animal-cruelty counts, sheriff's deputies said.
• David Pettis, 58, pleaded innocent to a murder charge after being accused of killing his wife, Peggy, by giving her ice cream laced with pain medicine at their home in Cheney, Wash., in 2018, prosecutors said.
A Section on 07/05/2019