• James Shaw Jr., who wrestled an AR-15 away from a gunman who killed four people and injured several others at a Waffle House in Nashville, Tenn., has raised more than $166,400 for the victims' families through an online fundraising campaign he started hours after the shooting.
• Andre Dickerson, 26, a former corrections officer from Kansas City, Mo., pleaded guilty to smuggling cellphones and other contraband into the Jackson County jail and now faces up to 18 months in federal prison under a plea deal.
• Berl Fink, 57, a rabbi from Brooklyn, N.Y., who kept driving for nearly 5 miles when a Vermont state trooper tried to pull him over for speeding and who then complained that he was mistreated when he did stop, paid a $100 fine in a plea deal that dropped a charge of eluding a police officer.
• Johnie Lewis Miller, 61, a street performer known as "Uncle Louie" who admitted to killing a Jacksonville, Fla., store owner in 1974 after cold-case investigators linked him to the crime in 2017, was freed after spending nearly a year in jail under a plea deal reached with prosecutors.
• Jose Luis Soto-Lopez, 52, of Brownsville, Texas, was sentenced to 54 months in prison and his daughter, Erica Janine Soto, 27, was sentenced to 21 months after both pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to smuggle people illegally into the U.S.
• Mike Knox, the coroner in Tallapoosa County, Ala., said a 45-year-old man from Belarus fell about 30 feet to his death while doing a safety inspection on a ride at a Kiwanis Club fair in Alexander City.
• Joshua Beard, 24, of Arlington, Texas, convicted of beating and stomping his girlfriend's 18-month-old daughter to death in 2014 and then burying the child's body under a rural bridge, was sentenced to life in prison.
• Chad Kendrick, 32, of Hattiesburg, Miss., is accused of hopping into an unlocked Coca-Cola delivery truck that had the keys still in it and driving off, leading police on a chase that ended in a neighboring town with his arrest on auto-theft and other charges, police said.
• Sarah Conway, 24, a charter-school teacher in Eaton, Ohio, accused of having a sexual relationship with a student, was arrested on a sexual-battery charge after she filed a harassment complaint against the now 18-year-old after she and the student broke up, police said.
A Section on 04/27/2018