• Scott Green, a plastic surgeon, is under investigation by the Medical Board of California after he appeared in a videoconference trial for his traffic violation dressed in surgical scrubs with a patient undergoing a procedure just out of view.
• William Khine, 42, a native of Burma who has lived in the U.S. for two decades, faces up to life in prison after he was found guilty of using his hands and a pair of pajama pants to strangle his wife in their Chesapeake, Va., apartment.
• Jeffrey Siegmeister, 52, of Live Oak, Fla., a former state attorney, was arrested after prosecutors accused him of conspiring with defense attorney Michael O'Steen, 41, who represented clients being prosecuted by Siegmeister's office, by soliciting bribes from O'Steen in exchange for the favorable disposition of charges filed against his clients, according to an indictment.
• Sean McManus, 46, of Australia, who ran a network of online charter schools across California with his business partner, Jason Schrock, 44, pleaded guilty to felony charges tied to a fraud scheme that siphoned $50 million in education funds from the state to invest in startup companies and real estate.
• Justin Fredrickson, 35, a firefighter who was working to douse flames in the township of Willard, Wis., is recovering after heat from the fire caused a loaded gun to discharge, critically wounding him.
• Kelly Pichardo, 30, and Leeza Rodriguez, 29, both from the Bronx, N.Y., were arrested after their flight was diverted because, according to authorities, one of the women spit on a fellow passenger who asked them to stop using racial slurs and the other slapped his hand when he started recording them.
• Sammy Allen, 32, a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper, faces assault charges stemming from the arrest of a man who crashed his truck as he fled a traffic stop, with authorities saying Allen choked the man twice and punched him in the groin while he was handcuffed.
• Richard Holzer, 28, was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for plotting to bomb a historic synagogue in Pueblo, Colo., by a judge who described the case as "dripping with Nazism and supremacy."
• Kym Worthy, prosecutor in Wayne County, Mich., said a 14-year-old girl who was charged in the fatal stabbing of her 65-year-old grandmother could be sentenced as an adult if she is found guilty of murder.