News of the day from across the nation, Aug. 21

Crews searching for the body of the last man believed buried by a landslide in a coastal Alaska town sifted log-by-log Thursday through a debris field, careful not to trigger any more movement of the mass of unstable, tree-tangled muck.

Two adult brothers and a city building inspector were reported missing when six landslides caused by heavy rain swept over the town on Tuesday.

Escapee in court: A convicted killer serving life behind bars when he staged a daring escape from a maximum-security prison was arraigned Thursday on new criminal charges in his first court appearance since his capture after more than three weeks on the run.

David Sweat, shackled and with his right arm in a sling, was brought to court in Plattsburgh, N.Y. from the special housing unit at Five Points Correctional Facility, where he’s been kept in a solitary cell for 23 hours a day.

A judge entered not-guilty pleas for Sweat on two felony counts of first-degree escape and a felony count of promoting prison contraband for possessing hacksaw blades.

For the first time, there’s evidence a drug reduces risk of complications that are the top killer of diabetes patients: heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular damage.

The makers of Jardiance — Eli Lilly of Indianapolis and German partner Boehringer Ingelheim — are releasing limited data from a 7,000-patient study indicating their year-old drug delayed the time until patients died of cardiovascular disease or suffered a heart attack or stroke.