In the news

■ Jason Pizzo, a state senator from Miami, declared a “teaching moment” for Gov. Ron DeSantis after a banking error caused 50 Florida teachers’ $1,000 bonus checks to bounce, tweeting that the “political benefit in spending $3.6 million to print and send thousands of checks with your [DeSantis’] name on it, is outweighed by … direct deposit.”

■ Billy Seal, police chief of Long Beach, Miss., said the concern is safety — not revenue — after aldermen voted to allow officers to use radar to curb speeders on U.S. 90 after the city’s population rose above the state law’s threshold of 15,000 to use the device.

■ Mark Wood, sheriff of Rapides Parish, La., said it’s “something to help the public; you know, that’s what we do,” as his office announced a project to cut up and give away firewood from storm-felled trees, with elderly and disabled residents getting priority for receiving it.

■ Rovier Carrington, 22, of Los Angeles was charged with perjury over emails that he sent seeking to support his lawsuit against Hollywood executives who had refused to produce his reality TV show, including false allegations that he had been sexually assaulted and defrauded, authorities said.

■ Jonathon Kyle McCoy, 57, mayor of Lanett, Ala., lost his job and awaits sentencing after pleading guilty to using the office for personal gain, including letting a family member drive a city-owned vehicle and not paying city utility bills.

■ Amy Lassitter St. Pe’, former city attorney for Gautier, Miss., and a 20-year veteran of the legal profession, was appointed municipal judge for Gautier and Jackson County, the first woman in the position.

■ Ron Berry, the ninth president of the University of Louisiana at Monroe, will help deliver cakes to nonprofits that the school works with, as part of the school’s 90th anniversary celebration.

■ Gavin Newsom, governor of California, signed a law removing the word “alien” from the state code in favor of “noncitizen” and “immigrant,” getting rid of “an offensive term” that has “fueled a divisive and hurtful narrative.”

■ Robert Jehle, a business owner in Montgomery, Ala., lamented the time and money it’ll take to change the address on his company documents, after the planning commission endorsed renaming Jeff Davis Avenue as Fred D. Gray Avenue, honoring a native son who grew up on the street and became a civil rights lawyer.