In the news
■ Patrick Blake, a spokesman for the Big Boy Restaurant Group, said a Sandusky, Mich., franchise of the restaurant is no longer allowed to use the Big Boy brand after the owners refused to stop indoor dining as part of Michigan’s restrictions to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
■ Matthew Obelgoner, general manager of The Thirsty Turtle in Macon, Ga., said he was “very disappointed” with a decision by the Bibb County sheriff’s office to temporarily suspend the bar’s liquor license after one woman was killed and seven people were injured in a shooting at the establishment.
■ Fred Haise, a former NASA astronaut and board member of the Infinity Science Center in Pearlington, Miss., said officials of the museum, who announced plans to close the center temporarily because of low attendance, are hoping to reopen once a coronavirus vaccine is available.
■ Paul Hollman, a pastor in Birmingham, Ala., has started a campaign against violence in the city, posting the message “Stop the Killings Birmingham” and an updated count of confirmed homicides on six digital billboards throughout the city.
■ Carolyn “Bunny” Welsh, the former sheriff of Chester County, Pa., who as a supporter of President Donald Trump has made multiple trips to the White House, has been charged with theft and diversion of services, accused of using deputies to perform private charity work and misusing funds raised for a K-9 unit.
■ Vernon Brock, 71, of Alva, Okla., was sentenced to more than seven years in prison after he admitted in a plea agreement that he offered $5,000 to a former business partner to kill the love interest of a former girlfriend in Oklahoma City, according to court documents.
■ Joni Money, a police spokeswoman in Jefferson County, Ala., said authorities are investigating after a man walking in woods behind his mother’s home found human remains in an abandoned metal building.
■ Akeyah Daniels, 26, of Vicksburg, Miss., was charged in a drive-by shooting that occurred in an apartment complex parking lot, after witnesses told police that Daniels and a man — both residents of the complex — had been arguing over a parking space.
■ Harold Celestine, 60, of Houston is wanted by police, accused of setting his 40-year-old girlfriend on fire during an argument, leaving her severely injured and hospitalized in critical condition, according to police.