In the news

■ Bobby Rush, a Democratic congressman from Chicago, will have $2,100 per month deducted from his annual pay of $174,000 after a judge ruled he’s liable for more than $1 million owed from a delinquent bank loan, used to buy a church, that he and seven others cosigned. ■ Cedric Vaivre, owner of a small bakery in Lusigny-sur-Barse, France, is being defended by his customers for working seven days a week making croissants and baguettes after he was fined $3,600 for violating French labor laws by not taking off at least one day a week.

■ Robert Lopez, spokesman for California State University, Los Angeles, said one of the school’s public-safety officers shot a coyote, which fled after being wounded, when the animal bit a small boy near a grassy area on campus and then menaced a woman a short while later. ■ Mohammad Ali Najafi, 65, the mayor of Tehran, Iran, resigned after being criticized by hard-line conservatives for attending a ceremony during which elementary school girls danced to commemorate International Women’s Day.

■ Morris Ellis of Vestavia Hills, Ala., was arrested on aggravated-battery charges, accused of beating a Georgia man, who is now at a hospital on life support, in a dispute over a handicapped-parking spot that began when Ellis failed to see a permit card in the victim’s window, deputies said.

■ Eric Howell, 44, a former high school teacher in Medford, N.J., faces up to five years in prison after he pleaded guilty to using a camera placed inside a drink container and hidden in a briefcase to take videos under the skirts of students.

■ Jessica Hood pleaded guilty to multiple counts of manslaughter and assault for driving while distracted by her cellphone and careening into six pedestrians, killing a man and his 13-month-old twin grandchildren in Florence, Ky.

■ Adetokunbo Akinnaso, 64, of Sicklerville, N.J., was removed from her job as a preschool administrator after she was arrested on accusations of threatening two 4-year-olds with a knife if they didn’t stop misbehaving, prosecutors said.

■ Monalisa Perez of Halstad, Minn., was sentenced to 180 days in jail for manslaughter and barred from profiting from a failed stunt in which she fatally shot her boyfriend as he held an encyclopedia to his chest for a video they planned to post on YouTube.