Timothy Bella

• National

It took seven hours for a group of hunters to catch and reel in the 14-foot 3-inch alligator, the longest ever caught in Mississippi.

• National

Estimates of those unaccounted for in the fires had fluctuated as authorities sought to “un-duplicate” the people reported missing.

• Obituaries

Rotunda “unexpectedly passed” on Thursday, WWE Chief Content Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque said on X.

• Politics

For $34, Trump supporters can buy T-shirts and other merchandise featuring the first mug shot of a former American president. Bumper stickers are going for $12.

• National

Clarence B. Jones, the personal counsel for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., is still defending King’s mission ahead of the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington.

• Education

Only Black fourth- and fifth-grade students at Bunnell Elementary School in Flagler County, Fla., were taken out of class for an assembly on how to improve standardized test scores.

• National

A FedEx spokeswoman said D’Monterrio Gibson did not accept a part-time nondriving job offer with the company.

• National

Travis Ikeguchi had a history of sharing anti-LGBTQ content on social media and “yelled many homophobic slurs” at Laura Carleton before he killed her, police said.

• Health

While health experts have repeatedly warned people to “stay out of floodwater” during Tropical Storm Hilary, some in California are swimming or playing in it.