In the news

■ Muge Ma of China was sentenced to 52 months in U.S. prison after admitting he fraudulently tried to get $20 million in pandemic funds meant to rescue distressed businesses, with the judge unpersuaded by his plea that “I’m very, very sorry to my country, America.”

■ Anthony Albanese , Australia’s opposition leader, tested positive for covid-19 at a particularly inopportune time as he campaigns for the country’s May election, but he vowed to continue “fighting for a better future for all Australians.”

■ James Isaac Crabtree , a municipal prosecutor in Missouri who resigned amid a federal probe, was indicted on charges of deprivation of rights under color of law and making false statements to the FBI over sexual contact with a defendant in several cases he was prosecuting.

■ Reginald Koeller III , a longtime New Orleans patrol officer, was arrested on a charge of dealing crack cocaine, with FBI agents and public integrity officers citing a drug stash and more than 100 guns in his home.

■ Sheree Finley , a relative of Jo Ann Robinson, who played a role in the Montgomery bus boycott, said “she’s finally being brought to the forefront” as Alabama State University names a residence hall after her, displacing that of a governor who was in the Ku Klux Klan.

■ Gregory Fenves , president of Emory University in Atlanta, said the school is getting rid of the names of a psychologist who supported eugenics and U.S. Supreme Court Justice L.Q.C. Lamar, an Emory graduate who wrote Mississippi’s secession ordinance and defended slavery and white supremacy.

■ Camille Bennett of Project Say Something said “it is imperative that we not lose that ability to speak truth to power” as the group filed suit contending that Florence, Ala., is wrongly trying to limit demonstrations against a Confederate monument.

■ Bob Young , former mayor of Augusta, Ga., is calling for a probe into how the current mayor, Hardie Davis, is spending money, telling a judge “records are being withheld or their release stonewalled” and “unchecked spending has occurred,” citing “political purposes.”

■ DeAnna Marie Stinson of Tampa, Fla., was sentenced to 6½ years in prison for attempting to hire a hitman on the dark web to kill her ex-boyfriend’s wife, with the judge saying it was hard to determine the right sentence for a highly educated, churchgoing businesswoman whom prosecutors called “calculating” and “brazen.”