• B. Jeevan, a police inspector in southern India, said Thangulla Satish, 45, was killed by his fluttering, panicked rooster during an illegal cockfight when a 3-inch knife tied to its leg slashed the man in the groin, causing him to bleed to death.
• Anthony Smith, 56, police chief in Haynesville, La., was arrested by the State Police Bureau of Investigation after a grand jury indicted him on a charge of malfeasance and five counts of theft of firearms in the wake of an FBI probe.
• Dameesha Johnson, 28, a master sergeant at the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel, La., was arrested on charges of taking contraband to a prison and malfeasance after fellow officers discovered drugs during a shift change.
• Edgar Egbert, a former Marine, was sentenced to 210 years in prison by a Mississippi judge after pleading guilty to six counts of attempted murder for firing an automatic rifle at law enforcement officers and leaving a sheriff's deputy partially paralyzed.
• Shawn Mark Anthony Saleem, 25, of Johns Creek, Ga., was charged with concealing a death and contributing to the delinquency of minors in the death of Carly Brooke Jackson, 16, after she is believed to have consumed oxycodone, marijuana and "Lean," a mix of codeine, promethazine and cold medication.
• Daizhane Redmond, 24, of Raytown, Mo., was charged with second-degree murder in the death of Mitchell Wright, her ex-boyfriend, who had alerted police that she had a gun and was trying to kill him.
• Milton Rawle, 49, former chief financial officer of Columbus, Miss., was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to embezzlement by moving $288,893 from city bank accounts to his own, with the judge saying he "couldn't imagine" imposing less than the maximum.
• Carol Bates, former comptroller at Bossier Parish Community College in Louisiana, was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud by issuing several people $286,987 in illegitimate refunds and pocketing the majority of it.
• Marshall Funkhouser, 28, of St. Charles, Mo., was charged with burglary and assault after police say he broke into an apartment and exchanged gunfire with a 66-year-old man who said he heard yelling and gunshots and picked up his handgun just before the door was kicked in, with both men suffering noncritical injuries.