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■ Jonathan Levin, 51, dean of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, said in a statement he’s excited “to lead our faculty and students as they advance knowledge and seek to contribute in meaningful ways to the world” as the university’s 13th president.
■ Ronald Gathe Jr., a federal prosecutor in Louisiana, said nine people from Louisiana, three from California and one from Mississippi were sentenced to 4 to 16 years for their roles in a drug trafficking scheme at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola and elsewhere, through the use of correctional staffers.
■ Anthony Torres, a 39-year-old who killed one man and shot four others in December 2015 at a Muslim-owned tire shop in Dallas, was sentenced to 37 years in prison on federal hate crime charges, authorities said.
■ Christopher Burbank, a former Tacoma, Wash., police officer cleared of criminal charges in the 2020 death of a Black man who was shocked, beaten and restrained facedown, was hired as a patrol deputy for the Thurston County sheriff’s office, the agency announced on Facebook.
■ Steve Southerland, 69, a Republican state senator of Morristown, Tenn., was hospitalized after experiencing a medical emergency during a floor session, said Adam Kleinheider, a spokesperson for the Senate speaker’s office.
■ John Fry, president of Drexel University in Philadelphia, said in a message to students and staff that university and city police are investigating “an egregious act of vandalism” to a sign outside the Raymond G. Perelman Center for Jewish Life as a hate crime.
■ William Curlis, 76, who has served as treasurer for dozens of political campaigns in Ohio, faces federal wire charges on allegations that he stole $995,231 from clients between 2008 and June 2023, prosecutors said.
■ Paul Applegate, acting assistant chief of the Kauai County, Hawaii, investigative services bureau, will receive $350,000 in back wages, general damages and legal fees to settle a racial discrimination suit, according to the settlement terms.
■ Kristin Lyerly, a gynecologist who was one of the plaintiffs in a Wisconsin lawsuit that succeeded in keeping abortions legal, became the first Democratic candidate to run for the U.S. House seat opened up by the retirement of Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher.