In the news

• Michael Hurley, 58, a South Carolina novelist and former lawyer, plans to set sail from France on the first leg of an around-the-world sailboat trip ahead of hurricane season despite needing rescue on two previous, shorter voyages, including a trans-Atlantic trip last year.

• Franky Zapata, a world record holder for doing 26 back flips with a water jet pack in a minute, flew a hoverboard 7,388 feet near the French coastal town of Sausset-les-Pins, breaking the previous world record of 905 feet, according to a Guinness World Records official.

• Saeb Erekat, a Palestinian official, objected to the placement of the Palestinian flag on a list of those banned from the Eurovision Song Contest, after which the multicountry contest's overseer removed the list in favor of a ban on offensive flags.

• Danielle Ta'Sheena Finn, 25, a law student at Arizona State University and a member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, was crowned Miss Indian World at the 33rd annual Gathering of Nations in Albuquerque, N.M., considered North America's largest powwow.

• Oqab al-Otaibi, who Saudi Arabian officials said was wanted in a number of terrorist acts, including a bombing last year that killed 15 people in a mosque inside a special forces compound, was captured after a manhunt that lasted more than 24 hours, officials said.

• Al Grieshaber, the city manager of Grantville, Ga., who proposed the four-day workweek schedule recently tested and approved by the city, said it would be an incentive for city employees, who receive few benefits and no longer have access to a retirement plan.

• Michael Shonrock, the president of Lindenwood University, announced that the St. Charles, Mo., school is turning over the 1810 house where frontiersman Daniel Boone spent his last years to St. Charles County to be part of a park.

• Conrad Anker, who was climbing in Tibet with Alex Lowe and cameraman David Bridges at the time of the 1999 avalanche that killed the pair, concluded that two bodies found melting out of a glacier are Lowe's and Bridges', based on descriptions by the climbers who found them.

• Daryl V. Raymond Jr., of Stockholm, Maine, was arrested in Florence, Ala., and charged with two counts of sex abuse of a child under 12 after the child's grandmother reported him to the owner of the traveling petting zoo where he worked.

A Section on 05/02/2016

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