• Meredith Dowty, 59, of Wichita, Kan., a retired firefighter accused of sending a graphic, specific threat to kidnap and kill Mayor Brandon Whipple over the city's mandate requiring people to wear masks in public because of the coronavirus pandemic, was charged with criminal threatening.
• Holly Courtier, 38, of Los Angeles, who had been missing for about two weeks in Utah's Zion National Park and was found after rangers received a tip about her location, was reunited with her family members who had feared the worst, authorities said.
• Scott Price, a church pastor in Bristol, Va., said he "can't see anything good, long-term, coming from a casino," after his and seven other churches formed a coalition to pay for billboards with messages urging voters to reject a $400 million casino proposal.
• Suzanne Thompson, spokesman for the Shelby County, Tenn., Election Commission, said a poll worker was fired after turning away several early voters in Memphis who were wearing "Black Lives Matter" and "I Can't Breathe" shirts, which she said aren't prohibited under state election laws at polling places.
• Grant Burton, a major with Florida's Wildlife Commission, said seven people arrested in the illegal trapping of as many as 3,600 flying squirrels over a three-year period for shipment to South Korea posed a severe threat to the state's wildlife population.
• Matt Burchett said his girlfriend, Marissa Politte, 25, of Ballwin, Mo., had just finished a shift when she was struck and killed by a sport utility vehicle as she stood on the sidewalk outside the clinic where she worked as an X-ray technician.
• Bryan Barrios, 36, who works on the Paramount Pictures studios lot in Los Angeles, is expected to survive his wounds after cutting himself with a knife during a two-hour standoff before he was arrested on a sexual assault charge involving a minor, Fullerton police said.
• Frank Jensen, 59, the lord mayor of Copenhagen, is stepping down after 11 years in the job and resigning as deputy leader of Denmark's governing Social Democratic Party after admitting that he sexually harassed women during social gatherings.
• Adora Anderson, 35, of Watsonville, Calif., accused of knocking out two front teeth of a supporter of President Donald Trump who organized a free-speech rally in San Francisco, was charged with mayhem with a hate crime enhancement, police said.