In the news

■ Ken Marbury, police chief in Oakman, Ala., will take on the duties of parttime police chief in his hometown of Graysville when the city, which disbanded its force 11 years ago and is currently patrolled by the Jefferson County sheriff’s office, restarts it Sept. 1 with 12 parttime officers.

■ Antonio Wilson has been barred from running for mayor of Tallulah, La., in October’s election after a Madison Parish judge ruled he hasn’t proved that he meets residency qualifications, including living in the city for a year.

■ Owen Jones, a columnist for the Guardian newspaper in London, said on Twitter that he was assaulted by three or four men while celebrating his birthday with friends, adding he was fine “other than a big bump on my head and a cut back.”

■ Herman Marks, city attorney of Decatur, Ala., said an attempt to ban visitors from taking guns to Point Mallard water park, where two people were shot recently, has been thwarted by a state law prohibiting an outright ban on guns, the Decatur Daily reported.

■ Lynn Wright, the elected superintendent of schools in Mississippi’s Lowndes County, said he could apply to become the district’s vocational director, a job that he has kept unfilled, if School Board members don’t retain him as the district’s leader when his current term expires Dec. 31, according to The Commercial Dispatch in Columbus.

■ Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, 90, Kuwait’s ruling emir, suffered an unspecified medical “setback” and later recovered, state media reported, after Iran’s visiting foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said he was praying for the ruler’s “speedy recovery.”

■ Jim Lucas, a Republican state representative from Seymour, Ind., who drew criticism after posting a picture of nooses under a Facebook story about a black man pleading guilty to rape, has responded that he has previously posted the picture under stories involving white offenders.

■ Kaylene Bowen-Wright, 35, pleaded guilty in Dallas County, Texas, to recklessly causing injury to a child after she was accused of exposing her son to unneeded medical tests and procedures, including treatment for cancer, which doctors at a Dallas hospital said the boy did not have.

■ Oddur Sigurosson, an Icelandic geologist who pronounced the Okjokull glacier extinct about a decade ago, led a memorial service, complete with a death certificate and a plaque, for the former glacier before about 100 people at an Icelandic volcano.