In the news
■ Stacey Camp, director of the Campus Archaeology Program at Michigan State University, said she has “big plans,” including building a plexiglass cover over of a 142-year-old observatory unearthed by students in a clearing near a student residence hall and having it nominated to the National Register of Historic Places.
■ Brian Kelsey, 45, a former Tennessee state senator who tried to take back his guilty plea unsuccessfully, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for violating campaign finance laws while running for a U.S. House of Representatives seat in 2016.
■ Larry Snelling, 54, counterterrorism head of the Chicago Police Department, was chosen by Mayor Brandon Johnson to be police superintendent, pending City Council approval, after a monthslong search led by the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability.
■ Jamie Raskin, Democratic congressman of Maryland, said lawmakers are “going to release a report about all of the foreign government emoluments — millions of dollars — we can document that Donald Trump pocketed at the hotels, at the golf courses [and] business deals when he was president and that his family got.”
■ Alice Cohen, of Gilford, N.H., claimed in a lawsuit that she “sustained bodily injuries, a loss of enjoyment of life, pain and suffering, and incurred necessary medical expenses” after she slipped on a piece of prosciutto and fell in Boston’s Eataly Italian food emporium.
■ Emma Willits, 26, of Des Moines, Iowa, said she’s looking for a candidate who cares about climate change and universal health care and said voting for President Joe Biden “feels a little hopeless.”
■ J.P. Morrell, City Council president in New Orleans, said the late Jason Cantrell, husband of Mayor LaToya Cantrell, “was a co-worker and mentor who was passionate about serving the underrepresented.”
■ Bryan Huffman, 49, of Holland, Mich., said he aborted his attempt to cross Lake Michigan after his support boat lost its steering, and he grew cold after battling a lake current.
■ George Theberge, 45, of New Hampshire, will spend at least one year in jail after pleading guilty in a deal with prosecutors to endangering the life of a newborn boy after abandoning a mother who gave birth in the woods during subfreezing weather.