In the news
■ Jann-Michael Greenburg, president of the Scottsdale, Ariz., school board, is facing calls for his resignation after being accused of keeping dossiers on dozens of parents, including information on divorce decrees, Social Security numbers and property records.
■ Daniel Humm was dismissed as the top chef at London’s five-star Claridge’s Hotel after he announced that he wanted an all-vegan menu at its restaurant, Davies and Brook, with the hotel’s management saying “this is not the path we wish to follow.”
■ Malik Sanchez, 19, of New York City, who self-identifies as an “involuntary celibate” or “incel,” pleaded guilty to carrying out a hoax at a Manhattan eatery by loudly stating that a bomb was about to go off near a table where two women sat, prosecutors said.
■ Guy Burns, an attorney for an 82-year-old Florida woman who lost more than $700,000 in cash to a “grandparent scam” where a caller convinced her that her granddaughter needed money, filed a lawsuit against the victim’s bank, saying it should have stopped the unusually large withdrawals.
■ Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of a British-Iranian woman who has been detained for more than five years in Iran, ended a hunger strike outside Britain’s Foreign Office that he began 21 days ago to pressure the government to do more to secure her release.
■ Ruben Alvarado, 24, of Mesquite, Texas, convicted of strangling a transgender woman and dumping her body in a lake in 2019 when he learned her biological sex while on a date, was sentenced to 37 years in prison, authorities said.
■ Kevin Stimage, 45, a former captain in the Tangipahoa Parish, La., sheriff ’s office, has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison over a payroll fraud scheme and was ordered to pay $241,086 in restitution, federal prosecutors said.
■ William Warden, 26, of Imperial, Mo., surrendered to face murder and other charges after being accused of intentionally using his car to hit and kill a St. Louis bar owner when a fight that began inside the tavern spilled outside, police said.
■ Gunnar Hand, planning director for Wyandotte County, Kan., wants the county to spend part of its share of the new $1 trillion federal infrastructure bill to build an overhead gondola to connect the downtowns of Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo., calling it a good time to consider an ambitious project.