In the news

■ Melania Trump, the first lady, in her first public appearances wearing a mask, took boxed lunches, tote bags, reusable masks and hand sanitizer to District of Columbia firefighters, police and emergency medical services personnel in unannounced visits last week, her office said.

■ Mary Ellen Brennan, a circuit judge in Pontiac, Mich., under criticism for detaining a 15-year-old girl who failed to do her online schoolwork, denied the teenager early release and said she was placed in a juvenile facility because she was a threat to her mother, citing an assault allegation.

■ Sheldon Silver, 76, the former New York General Assembly speaker who was convicted of secretly taking $800,000 in improper fees from real estate developers from 2005 to 2015, was sentenced to six years in prison, prosecutors said.

■ Tim Huebner, a history professor at Rhodes College in Memphis, said he’s unsure why a historical marker noting the location of a downtown slave market owned by Nathan Bedford Forrest was vandalized, but he noted that “we are in the middle of a great reckoning on the issue of race right now.”

■ Tyler Timberlake, a white Fairfax County, Va., police officer recorded on his body camera using his stun gun and hitting a Black suspect without any apparent provocation, was indicted on three misdemeanor assault and battery counts, prosecutors said.

■ Deborah Alcorn, a former jail deputy in Rockcastle County, Ky., who admitted having two inmates assault a third inmate, who Alcorn believed had broken into her house months before, faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to violating the inmate’s civil rights.

■ Richard Wershe Jr., 51, a Detroit-area man who inspired the movie “White Boy Rick” with his decades in prison for drug dealing and his work as an FBI informant, has been released from custody in Florida, his first steps of freedom since he was a teenager.

■ Janvique Franklin Jr., 24, of Hammond, La., who authorities said has acknowledged his role in a May 25 road-rage shooting on Interstate 10 that left a 30-year-old Gulfport, Miss., man dead, faces a manslaughter charge, police said.

■ Philip Riehl, the majority owner of Trickling Springs Creamery, an award-winning organic dairy in Chambersburg, Pa., who pleaded guilty to defrauding Amish and Mennonite investors of nearly $60 million, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.