• The Rev. Stephen Carlsen, rector of the Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral in Indianapolis, said statues of Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus were placed in a cage topped with barbed wire outside the church to protest the Trump administration's zero-tolerance immigration policy.
• Charles Lombardi, mayor of North Providence, R.I., said he's not bothered by an unflattering public mural depicting him wearing a crown and sitting on a toilet that a property owner had painted as part of a long-simmering dispute over a building the mayor describes as a "health hazard."
• Bryan Wright said his father, Dennis Wright of Perry, Mich., who died of cancer at age 61, got his final wish fulfilled when mourners skipped flowers at his funeral and instead donated dozens of children's shoes to be given to needy families.
• Maurice Sanders and Keshanna Thompson, both 30, were charged with aggravated animal cruelty after police in Panama City, Fla., broke into a car to free a puppy that, they said, the Mississippi couple had locked in the trunk while they went shopping.
• Souad Abderrahim, 54, a pharmacist and former lawmaker who doesn't wear a veil as a member of a moderate Islamic political party, has been elected mayor of Tunis, Tunisia's capital city, marking the first time a woman has held the post.
• Chris Butler, 33, armed with a handgun when he told four City Hall clerks in Normandy, Mo., to show their hands and not move, was subdued with a stun gun and arrested on kidnapping charges after he refused to let the clerks go, police said.
• Jon-Erik Negron, a Long Island, N.Y., police officer who cleared the airway and helped a newborn boy take his first breath after his mother unexpectedly gave birth at home, is now the child's godfather so he can stay involved in the boy's life, the child's parents said.
• Matteo Salvini, Italy's interior minister, demonstrated his anti-Mafia priorities by diving into a pool and swimming a lap at a Tuscan villa that was confiscated from a Mafia boss in 2007 and has been converted into a resort.
• Rev. Michael Briese, a Catholic priest in Charlotte Hall, Md., apologized but has been placed on leave as church officials investigate after he angrily refused to carry out a funeral and told the deceased's family to "get the hell out of my church!" when a guest knocked over a chalice, damaging it.
A Section on 07/04/2018