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David Stewart, mayor of Lantana, Fla., was investigated by the Florida Commission on Ethics, which found probable cause in a complaint accusing him of soliciting sex from a resident in exchange for installing speed bumps in her neighborhood.

Donald Link, a New Orleans chef, will conduct a cooking master class as part of a Haitian festival celebrating the mutual histories and cultures of the two former French colonies, with the Port-au-Prince event also featuring a concert by the New Orleans Preservation Hall Jazz Band.

Sam King of the Amite County Historical Society in Mississippi said architects are working on a plan to save the Little Red Schoolhouse in Liberty, a former girls school that dates to 1853, which is rotting because of excessive moisture caused by water seeping into the building when a nearby road was built up.

Lee H. Leger Jr., 61, of Golden Meadow, La., was cited by the state’s Department of Wildlife and Fisheries for possessing 20 pounds of meat from two green sea turtles, which are on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s list of threatened species in the Gulf of Mexico.

Edward Delmore, police chief in Gulf Shores, Ala., said a speed limit reduction from 35 mph to 26 mph on Alabama 135 through Gulf State Park is designed to catch the attention of drivers, adding he hopes the unusual speed limit “will help drivers take note and slow down.”

Ralph Nelson, managing partner of the Rocket City Trash Pandas, a new minor league baseball team in Madison, Ala., said the team has received requests from 30 countries for merchandise featuring the team’s logo of a raccoon lifting off in a rocket that looks like a trash can.

Tiah Larvadain, 23, a recent graduate of Louisiana State Police cadet training, joined Lt. Treone Larvadain to become part of the agency’s first mother-daughter trooper duo, saying she was inspired to walk in her mother’s footsteps.