A Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an unarmed woman after she called 9-1-1 to report a possible rape behind her home was sentenced Thursday to 57 months on a lesser charge after his murder conviction was overturned.

Mohamed Noor was initially convicted of third-degree murder and manslaughter in the 2017 fatal shooting of Justine Damond. He was sentenced to 12 1/2 years on the murder count … but last month … the supreme court tossed out Noor’s murder conviction and ordered him to be resentenced for manslaughter.

Coronavirus infections and deaths in Ukraine surged to all-time highs Thursday. Ukrainian authorities reported 22,415 new confirmed infections and 546 deaths in the past 24 hours, the highest numbers since the start of the pandemic.

Authorities have blamed a spike in infections on a slow pace of vaccination in the nation of 41 million. Only about 15% of the population is fully vaccinated.

U.S. regulators on Wednesday signed off on extending COVID-19 boosters to Americans who got the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Regulators said anyone eligible for an extra dose can get a brand different from the one they received initially.

Lia Piazza can be reached at lia.piazza@stthomas.edu.