In the news
■ Edith Harrington, 98, who was in the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps in World War II, led a parade of 100 entries and waved to the crowd from a military jeep as Jefferson City, Mo., celebrated the bicentennial of the Show Me State.
■ Santiago Alvarez, 80, who owns 1,200 rental units in South Florida, is facing resistance from some tenants as he tests the boundaries of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ covid-19 orders by declaring, “You don’t want to get vaccinated? You have to move.”
■ Cornell Harvey, mayor of Brunswick, Ga., cited the high cost to the city’s health insurance program for covering employees who get ill with covid-19 as his city became at least the third in the state to offer $500 incentives for employees to get vaccinated.
■ Rickia Young of Philadelphia will get $2 million from the city after police officers smashed the windows of her SUV, yanked her out and beat her when she inadvertently found herself trapped on a police-barricaded street near a protest over a police killing.
■ Debbie Dollar, 58, of Columbia, La., was fired as chief civil deputy for the Caldwell Parish sheriff’s office after she was arrested, accused of stealing $35,000 from a cash drawer.
■ Mike Blakely, 70, former sheriff of Limestone County, Ala., who was convicted of theft and using his office for personal gain, will be allowed to serve his threeyear sentence in nearby Franklin County rather than in the jail he once ran.
■ Glenn Pair, 35, of Georgia was charged with money laundering and conspiracy to commit $4 million worth of Medicaid fraud in North Carolina, accused of paying people to recruit kids for after-school and mentoring programs run by companies he operated, then having tests run on the kids’ urine to receive kickbacks from laboratories, authorities said.
■ Michael Dismer, 53, of Rogersville, Mo., was sentenced to five years in prison and must pay $4.3 million in restitution for running a boat-building scheme that defrauded 22 customers from around the world out of more than $4 million.
■ Olivia Winslow and Camryn Amy, both 21 of Delaware, who ripped apart a Donald Trump poster and yanked away a “Make America Great Again” hat at the 2020 Democratic National Convention, actions captured in a video viewed millions of times, got probation on resulting charges but must attend anger management courses and do 40 hours of community service.