• Lori Lightfoot, sworn in as Chicago's first black female and openly gay mayor, said, "Get ready because reform is here," in her inaugural address, noting that while "putting Chicago government and integrity in the same sentence may seem a little strange," she plans to change how City Hall works.
• William Wilbourn-Little, 30, of Detroit, convicted in the fatal shootings of three men in a fast-food restaurant, apologized in court to the "mothers involved" but maintained his innocence before he was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
• Nigel Farage, a pro-Brexit British politician, was hit with a banana-and-salted-caramel milkshake by a 32-year-old man as he campaigned in Newcastle, England, in the latest in a spate of attacks on politicians using the sticky beverage.
• Stephen Montana, 28, was sentenced to time served, about 15 months, for illegally using drugs while possessing guns that at one time had been seized by Pascagoula, Miss., police when he was committed to a mental hospital but later returned to him ahead of his 2018 drug arrest.
• Maria Wlodkowska, a hospital spokesman in Krakow, Poland, said a 29-year-old woman and her new babies are doing well after she gave birth through cesarean section to four girls and two boys in what is believed to be the country's first-ever case of sextuplets.
• Grant Bissell, sheriff of Jefferson County, Mo., said four girls made it to safety but a 15-year-old girl died after she was struck by a passing train when the five teens climbed a train trestle so they could jump into a creek near Hematite.
• Jermaine Pressley, 43, of Greenville, S.C., was arrested on drug charges, including intent to distribute heroin and cocaine, after police, investigating a shooting, said he shot through a door when he mistook his daughter for a suspected intruder, killing her.
• Terry Knope II, 46, and his wife, Raylaine, 43, each face 28-year prison sentences after pleading guilty to abusing a 22-year-old autistic woman and forcing her to live in an outdoor cage at a home in rural Tangipahoa Parish, La., prosecutors said.
• Aquinas Kasbar, 19, of Newport Beach, Calif., accused of breaking into the Santa Ana Zoo, cutting open an enclosure and stealing a 32-year-old lemur named Isaac, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of unlawfully taking an endangered species, prosecutors said.
A Section on 05/21/2019