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• Kevin Stitt, the Republican governor of Oklahoma who was the first governor in the nation to test positive for the coronavirus, has donated blood plasma to assist other virus patients, calling it the "easiest way" to help people recover from covid-19.

• Thomas Gilmer, 29, of Madison, Conn., a Republican running for Congress, abruptly dropped out of the race on primary day, Tuesday, a day after he was arrested on domestic assault charges stemming from a 2017 altercation with a former girlfriend.

• Stacey Hedman, manager of a Yarmouth, Mass., animal welfare group, said a team of volunteers used stretchers and boats to rescue about 45 dolphins that became stranded on a Cape Cod beach as the tides changed overnight.

• Troy Jackson Jr., 28, of St. Louis, accused of fatally shooting a neighbor during an argument over street parking and then trying to kill the victim's wife in her home, was charged with first-degree murder, assault and other counts, authorities said.

• Mary Ellen Brennan, an Oakland, Mich., circuit judge who sent a 15-year-old girl to a juvenile detention facility for not doing her homework, terminated the case and ended the girl's probation after a state appeals court ordered the girl's release.

• Zachary Clark, 41, charged with posting maps and images of New York City's subway system on social media and then encouraging a terrorist attack, pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq.

• Russ Davies, a fire captain in Anne Arundel County, Md., said a neighbor reported seeing "somebody throw somebody through the window of the church" before the start of a fire that caused $10,000 in damage to the vestibule of a predominately Black church south of Annapolis.

• Yahaya Sharif, 22, a musician in northern Nigeria's Kano state, has 30 days to appeal a death sentence imposed after he was convicted for circulating a song on social media described as insulting Prophet Muhammad, the state's religious police said.

• Bianca Digennaro, whose young son with special needs was handcuffed, booked and briefly jailed on a felony battery charge after being accused of punching a teacher, filed a lawsuit against police and the Key West, Fla., school district, saying she is refusing to let her son become "a convicted felon at the age of 8."

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