In the news

■ Max Lakes, director of the Alexandria Zoo in Louisiana, said he was “happily surprised” to have a steady line of visitors when the zoo reopened after the venue was shut down last year because of the coronavirus pandemic and then damaged by Hurricane Laura in August.

■ Stephen Setter, 19, was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to setting a fire that destroyed a city office building in Savannah, Ga., admitting in court that he had also activated a fire alarm at a local marina that same night to draw firefighters away from their station.

■ Montrecus Campbell, 40, of Ville Platte, Miss., was sentenced to 262 months in prison after federal agents discovered that Campbell received shipments of methamphetamine at his home before providing the drug to co-conspirators to distribute, authorities said.

■ Leroy Upshaw, 50, the former sheriff of Barbour County, Ala., is facing two felony ethics charges after a state investigation found more than $85,000 missing from public accounts.

■ Dave Rohlic, the fire chief of Terre Du Lac, Mo., said a 79-year-old man, whose body was found in Lac Shayne by a teenager walking his dog, had drowned after falling into the lake while using a canoe to pursue his boat, which had broken loose from a dock.

■ Audrey Williams, 57, of Shreveport, was sentenced to four years in prison for a scheme in which Williams recruited students and former students of a Louisiana community college to file for fraudulent refunds from the school, according to a federal prosecutor.

■ Catherine Adams, chairwoman of the police commission on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, said an investigation found that Police Chief Todd Raybuck violated county discrimination policies when he mocked people of Asian descent.

■ Ruepert Bryan, 85, a former doctor from Calera, Ala., who was arrested after authorities sought the public’s help identifying a man shown in an obscene video, was convicted on charges of sexually abusing children and producing child pornography, according to District Attorney Jill Lee.

■ Richard Neace, a police captain in Union, Mo., said an officer responding to a report of a suspicious woman carrying a weapon shot a 32-year-old woman after she pointed a crossbow at police and refused orders to drop it.