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▪ Chris Davis, the vice mayor of Opa-locka, Fla., who co-sponsored a repeal of the city’s ban on “saggy pants” — pants that exposed the wearer’s underwear — said he “felt it disproportionately affected a certain segment of our population, which is young, African American men.”

▪ Donald Crowther, a contractor in Long Beach, Miss., was ordered by a judge to pay restitution after pleading guilty to fraud for accepting $454,000 to build a church sanctuary but only completing a preliminary site preparation.

▪ Darrell Baker, 56, of Detroit pleaded guilty to bank fraud and money laundering charges after an investigation by the FBI and the Small Business Administration found he falsified business information to acquire a $590,000 loan under the Paycheck Protection Program, according to the Justice Department.

▪ Bobby Livingston, the executive vice president of RR Auction in Boston, auctioned off a lock of Abraham Lincoln’s hair along with a blood-stained telegram from the War Department about his 1865 assassination for $81,250.

▪ Elzey Perrilloux, 53, a district judge in St. John Parish, La., was convicted of three felony counts of indecent behavior and a count of sexual battery for inappropriately touching friends of his daughters, some as young as 14, according to prosecutors.

▪ Dean King of Merrimack, N.H., was reunited with Spartacus, his 40-pound African serval cat that ran away after getting spooked by the family dog, after Merrimack police said they caught the animal near its home “in good health.”

▪ Gurbir Grewal, the attorney general of New Jersey, said the state charged nine people with using stolen identities to obtain digital driver’s licenses that they used to fraudulently purchase and finance motor vehicles and watercrafts worth more than $1.3 million.

▪ Quentin Collins, the owner of a “rage room” in Albany, Ga., said he’s giving people “a way to release through all that frustration” during the pandemic by charging them to smash TV sets, windshields, cups, bottles and other items using a baseball bat or sledgehammer.

▪ Alvin Muldrew III, 17, of Kansas City, Mo., was charged with second-degree murder and seven other counts in connection with a June shooting that left one man dead and two women injured, an incident that investigators believe stemmed from a marijuana deal.