• Victor Mooney, 49, of New York, who set off in a rowboat from the Canary Islands in February 2014, arrived in New York City, completing his 21-month journey rowing across the Atlantic to raise HIV awareness in memory of his brother, who died of AIDS in 1983.
• Pope Tawadros II, the leader of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, breaking a church ban on travel to Israel to attend the funeral of Anba Abraham, head of the Holy Land diocese, insisted he was not making an official visit to Jerusalem and was there merely to "bid farewell to a very important person."
• Hallie Turner, 13, whose petition to have North Carolina adopt stricter emissions rules was rejected by the state's Environmental Management Commission, lost her bid to have a superior court overturn that rejection and is considering an appeal of the court's ruling, her lawyers said.
• Frederick Rutherford, who is accused of stealing a car that had been left unlocked with a 19-month-old toddler in the back seat outside a Nashville, Tenn., store, was charged with vehicle theft and kidnapping, while the child's father, Emanuel Batey, 46, was charged with child neglect.
• Kevin Sartorius, a deacon with Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Tulsa, which reunites refugees with relatives already in Oklahoma, called on the U.S. to pause the admission of Syrian refugees until the government can ensure the safety of Americans.
• Amy Hebert, 48, of Mathews, La., who is serving consecutive life sentences for the 2007 stabbing deaths of her two children, is appealing her conviction, saying that women were improperly eliminated from the jury pool.
• Julia Marie Jones of Jasper, Ga., was indicted on charges of felony theft by shoplifting, accused of hiding 131 underwear garments worth $749.95 in her purse, a handbag and grocery bags from a Wal-Mart store near Atlanta.
• Kate Major-Lohan, actress Lindsay Lohan's stepmother, was removed from a JetBlue plane and handed over to the FBI after the flight from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to Los Angeles was diverted to New Orleans to remove an "unruly customer," according to deputies in Jefferson Parish, La.
• Lucas Etter, 14, of Lexington, Ky., said he'll "keep cubing" after setting the world record at a Rubik's cube competition in Clarksville, Md., solving the puzzle in 4.904 seconds.
A Section on 11/29/2015