• Mitt Romney, 73, the Republican U.S. senator from Utah, said he's "doing better" after being knocked unconscious in a fall while spending time with his grandchildren, resulting in Romney getting stitches in his lip and right eyebrow.
• Braxton Basinger, owner of B&H Livestock in Winfield, Ala., said he and others plan to search on horseback for a 3½-year-old kangaroo that escaped from a livestock trailer when Basinger stopped at his home before taking it to its new owner in Tennessee.
• Bryant Mayner, 32, faces aggravated assault charges after police said he "recklessly" fired his handgun and wounded two boys, ages 13 and 14, in the legs after he caught them trying to break into his car outside an Atlanta Waffle House.
• Francisco Isaias of San Bernardino, Calif., a U.S. Forest Service employee, has been charged, accused of steering nearly $900,000 in maintenance contracts to the owner of an auto body shop in return for bribes and kickbacks.
• Michael Johnson, an Orange County, Fla., sheriff's deputy, was suspended for nearly a month after an internal investigation found that he showed "unbecoming conduct" and "bias and disrespect" toward Muslims on his personal social media page.
• Zaylen Smith and Donavan Jordan, both 21 and of Kansas City, Mo., were charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the shooting of a 46-year-old man in an area lined with restaurants and businesses in Blue Springs, police said.
• Emil A., a Berlin man whose last name wasn't given in line with German privacy laws, was sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted of attempted extortion for threatening to blow up a British National Health Service hospital unless he was paid $13.2 million in cryptocurrency.
• Maurice Agnew, 54, of Baldwyn, Miss., who was on supervised release and had 17 years of a 20-year sentence suspended in a 2018 knife assault, has been arrested in the stabbing death of a Saltillo, Miss., man, a violation of Agnew's supervised release deal, and faces reimposition of the 17 years, authorities said.
• Angela McAteer, head of Sotheby's Chinese Works of Art Department, called an email seeking information about a small porcelain bowl bought for $35 at a Connecticut yard sale something experts dream about when it turned out to be a rare, 15th century Chinese artifact worth more than $300,000.