In the news
■ Vicky Cornell, the wife of rock singer Chris Cornell, who died in 2017, said she and her children were “heartbroken” to learn that a statue of the former Soundgarden frontman outside the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle had been vandalized.
■ Carlos Taylor, a police officer in Montgomery, Ala., who was injured in a car crash that left him immobile and unable to speak, is getting help from fellow officers, officials and family members, who have organized a Labor Day virtual Van-a-Thon to raise money for a wheelchair-accessible vehicle for Taylor.
■ LaKimberly Gallager-Hobson, a school district superintendent in Benton County, Miss., was ordered by the state auditor’s office to repay nearly $35,000 in performance incentives that she was not yet eligible to receive, according to the auditor’s office.
■ Michael Bransfield, a former Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston in West Virginia, issued an apology two years after he resigned amid allegations of sexual and financial misconduct and was forced to repay $441,000 in misused funds, according to a church investigation.
■ George Piro, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Miami office, said in a news briefing that the agency is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the location of Leila Cavett, whose young son was found wandering alone in an apartment complex in Miramar, Fla., last month.
■ Karen Camper, the minority leader for the Tennessee House of Representatives, tested positive for covid-19 and is in quarantine at her home in Memphis, according to a spokesman for the House Democrats.
■ Daichi Ono, a cast member for the Tokyo production company Kowagarasetai, said the group, whose name roughly translates as Scare Squad, launched a drive-thru haunted house “because we cannot get close to customers” during the coronavirus pandemic.
■ Norman Francis, the former president of Xavier University of New Orleans, thanked city officials for naming a street after him that borders the historically Black university, “an institution that I have called home for more than a half century.”
■ Carl Morrison, a parttime deputy with the Jefferson County, Ga., sheriff’s office, resigned after the agency received complaints about a post on his Facebook page criticizing Democrats that ended: “Time to lock and load.”