In the news

■ Carrie Gracie, China editor for the BBC, Britain’s public broadcaster, has resigned from her Beijing post and will return to the newsroom over what she called a “secretive and illegal” pay structure that left her making 50 percent less than her male peers.

■ Kim Davis, the county clerk in Kentucky who spent five days in jail in 2015 for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down laws barring same-sex unions, has filed for re-election.

■ Prayuth Chan-ocha, Thailand’s prime minister, evaded reporters’ questions by turning on his heel and walking off after bringing out a life-size cardboard cutout of himself and telling the reporters to quiz it instead of him.

■ Lynn Tran and Richard Hazen, who live on Anna Maria Island on Florida’s west coast, will have to take down their two-story beachfront treehouse after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to get involved in their dispute with the city on whether they needed a permit to build it.

■ Jamie Calise, a police captain in Warwick, R.I., said police have identified a woman who will face a larceny charge after being caught on security video picking up a $100 bill seconds after it was dropped by another shopper and then shushing a little boy who saw her by putting her finger over her lips.

■ Chad Caddell, a principal in Florence, Ky., posted a musical message on his school’s Facebook page to let people know schools were closed because of icy roads, singing in a video “that school is canceled for today” to the tune of Mariah Carey’s “Hero.”

■ Nancy Snyder, spokesman for NJ Transit, operator of New Jersey’s mass transportation system, said investigators are sorting out, after an arrest, why a person jumped into a police SUV and drove it into the doors of a waiting room at the Hoboken rail terminal.

■ Philip Slaughter, 42, a former sheriff’s lieutenant in Ellis County, Texas, was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for stealing about 40 confiscated guns from an evidence room and pawning the weapons or selling them online.

■ Linda Jean Fahn, 69, of Goodyear, Ariz., is facing an aggravated-assault charge after police said she barged into a bathroom at her home while her husband was sitting on the toilet and fired two shots above his head, telling police she did it “to make him listen to me.”