In the news

■ Christopher Horne, 17, of Adel, Ga., says business is booming after he set up a vending machine last month outside a gym to sell live minnows and worms supplied to him by his father, an avid outdoorsman, who raises live bait.

■ Ramsey Green, the deputy chief administrative officer of New Orleans, said the city is removing 77 obsolete pay phone kiosks, which no longer have phones in them and are often covered in graffiti or filled with trash.

■ Josh Smith, a businessman and former convict who was pardoned by President Donald Trump, is investing $3.8 million to convert a building in Knoxville, Tenn., to provide transitional housing and assistance programs for ex-inmates.

■ John Price, a police superintendent in Canterbury, New Zealand, said a 27-yearold has been arrested in connection with threats made on the website 4chan against two Christchurch mosques that were the sites of a 2019 terrorist attack that left 51 people dead.

■ Kari Wilkinson, a naval architect and manager at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss., was promoted to president by the company’s board of directors and will be the first woman to lead the shipyard, which is the largest private employer in Mississippi.

■ Tony Waldrop, the president of the University of South Alabama, said three professors have been placed on leave, and an independent investigation will be conducted after photos surfaced of one of the professors wearing a Confederate uniform and the other two posing with a whip and a noose during a 2014 Halloween party.

■ Kenneth Hubert, 63, of Marionville, Mo., is facing charges after threatening U.S. Reps. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., and Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., an action intended to impede them from performing their official duties or in retaliation for the performance of their duties, according to a federal indictment.

■ Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said the organization has named the Jon L. Stryker and Slobodan Randjelovic LGBTQ & HIV Project after a Michigan couple who donated $15 million to the ACLU Foundation.

■ Robert Purbeck, 41, of Meridian, Idaho, was charged with computer fraud and abuse, access device fraud and wire fraud in the theft of personal information from the computer networks of a Georgia city and several Atlanta-area medical clinics, according to prosecutors.