In the news
■ Levi Weaver, mayor of Greenwood, Mo., saw the town’s aldermen commence impeachment proceedings against him after he was accused of threatening one of them with a gun and some less serious offenses, but he vowed to fight, saying, “My name’s already run through the mud; we’re going to ride this out.”
■ Stephen Richer, a top election official in Maricopa County, Ariz., filed a defamation suit against Kari Lake, alleging her claims that she lost the gubernatorial race because of fraud subjected him to “violent vitriol and other dire consequences.”
■ Mike Register, director of Georgia’s Bureau of Investigation, is stepping down after less than a year on the job to become public safety director for Cobb County, a post he previously held for four months before leaving for personal reasons.
■ Zac Steele of emergency management in Troup County, Ga., was disappointed to fall short of the threshold for a tornado disaster declaration but promised to “find local options, community grants, whatever is out there to be able to serve our citizens … that’s exactly what we’re gonna do.”
■ Jeffrey Sandman, a Louisiana attorney, said, “Showing your ID in a checkout lane is simply not the same as submitting it to a government database,” as an adult entertainment group leads a challenge to laws requiring sexually explicit websites to make users verify they’re 18.
■ Ashantae Corruthers of Indianapolis faces up to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty in the straw purchase of a gun used to kill an Illinois police officer and wound another on a domestic disturbance call.
■ Sandra Hemme of Missouri won a court hearing that could free her after four decades in prison for a murder her supporters say she didn’t commit, with the Innocence Project arguing she was a patient at a psychiatric hospital when she gave conflicting statements to investigators.
■ Mohamad Yassin Alcharihi of Palmdale, Calif., faces up to two years in prison for illegally importing a 2,000-pound mosaic dating to the Roman Empire that authorities believe was looted from war-torn Syria.
■ Paige Miller of the Hamilton County, Ind., chapter of Moms for Liberty, which advocates for parental rights in education but was labeled extremist by the Anti-Defamation League, apologized and condemned Adolf Hitler after using a quote attributed to him in a newsletter.