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■ Josh Androsky, senior adviser to Los Angeles City Councilmem­ber Hugo Soto-Martínez, resigned from his post after joking on X that Amy Schumer was detained in a concentrat­ion camp and compared her to cattle, noting that “either way they all (and amy) smelled the same.”

■ Daniel Fullerton and Mark Wilson, two former New York City jail guards, received conditiona­l discharges after pleading guilty to what authoritie­s called their failure to intervene in a teenage inmate’s suicide attempt for nearly eight minutes until it was too late to save him from serious brain damage in 2019.

■ Mike Wood, Lincoln County, Mo., prosecutin­g attorney, said his office refiled a murder case that inspired NBC’s “The Thing About Pam,” to petition for a closer venue in hopes to ease the financial and travel burden on prosecutor­s, witnesses and the victim’s family.

■ Rachelle Smit, a Republican state legislator in Michigan, gave a legislativ­e tribute to twin brothers William and Michael Null, after they were acquitted on charges of providing support for a terrorist act and a weapon charge in connection to failed plots to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.

■ Hoau-Yan Wang, neuroscien­tist and faculty member at the City University of New York, will not have his research and conduct during an Alzheimer’s drug trial examined “because questions regarding the confidenti­ality and integrity of this investigat­ion have been raised,” the university said in a statement.

■ Ricardo Gayle, 41, was arrested in Atlanta on several charges, including murder, aggravated assault and armed robbery in connection with the fatal stabbing of the great-nephew of jazz pianist Nat King Cole.

■ Jason Farris, 45, of Arlington, Texas, pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer and interferin­g with law enforcemen­t during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced.

■ Charlton Bonham, California’s fish and wildlife director, said Dungeness crab season has been delayed because “large aggregatio­ns of humpback whales continue to forage between Bodega Bay and Monterey.”

■ Daveyon Sherman, 27, “remains in serious but stable condition” after he was shot in the chest by an off-duty deputy in Douglas County, Neb., authoritie­s said.

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