Bobby Rush, a Democratic congressman from Chicago, will have $2,100 per month deducted from his annual pay of $174,000 after a judge ruled he’s liable for more than $1 million owed from a delinquent bank loan, used to buy a church, that he and seven others cosigned.
Cedric Vaivre, owner of a small bakery in Lusigny-sur-Barse, France, is being defended by his customers for working seven days a week making croissants and baguettes after he was fined $3,600 for violating French labor laws by not taking off at least one day a week.
Robert Lopez, spokesman for California State University, Los Angeles, said one of the school’s public-safety officers shot a coyote, which fled after being wounded, when the animal bit a small boy near a grassy area on campus and then menaced a woman a short while later.
Mohammad Ali Najafi, 65, the mayor of Tehran, Iran, resigned after being criticized by hard-line conservatives for attending a ceremony during which elementary school girls danced to commemorate International Women’s Day.
Morris Ellis of Vestavia Hills, Ala., was arrested on aggravated-battery charges, accused of beating a Georgia man, who is now at a hospital on life support, in a dispute over a handicapped-parking spot that began when Ellis failed to see a permit card in the victim’s window, deputies said.
Eric Howell, 44, a former high school teacher in Medford, N.J., faces up to five years in prison after he pleaded guilty to using a camera placed inside a drink container and hidden in a briefcase to take videos under the skirts of students.
Jessica Hood pleaded guilty to multiple counts of manslaughter and assault for driving while distracted by her cellphone and careening into six pedestrians, killing a man and his 13-month-old twin grandchildren in Florence, Ky.
Adetokunbo Akinnaso, 64, of Sicklerville, N.J., was removed from her job as a preschool administrator after she was arrested on accusations of threatening two 4-year-olds with a knife if they didn’t stop misbehaving, prosecutors said.
Monalisa Perez of Halstad, Minn., was sentenced to 180 days in jail for manslaughter and barred from profiting from a failed stunt in which she fatally shot her boyfriend as he held an encyclopedia to his chest for a video they planned to post on YouTube.