In the news

■ Jim Strickland, mayor of Memphis, tweeted that “I’m thankful for being vaccinated” after testing positive for covid-19 because he’s got congestion but otherwise feels well, adding: “Over 90% of Memphians being hospitalized are not vaccinated. Please get your vaccine.”

■ James Kanatazar, a judge in Jackson County, Mo., ordered Rae’s Cafe in Blue Springs to close after the owner refused to follow a pandemic mask mandate and lost her license to serve food but reopened as a private club that charged customers $1 to join and prohibited masks.

■ Sam Rivera, the Atlanta zoo’s health director, said “we’re taking it on a dayby-day basis” as 13 western lowland gorillas receive monoclonal antibodies after testing positive for covid-19, including 60-yearold Ozzie, the oldest male gorilla in captivity.

■ Myles McDonnell, liquor control chief in St. Louis, suspended the license of Reign Restaurant, a downtown nightspot accused of flouting mask and social distancing rules, after it drew attention over street fights, broken bottles on sidewalks and gunshots that woke people up.

■ Mark Jones, district attorney of Georgia’s Chattahoochee Circuit, was indicted on nine felony charges of criminal misconduct, accused of trying to influence a police officer’s testimony, offering bribes to prosecutors and trying to influence the testimony of a crime victim.

■ Jason Schrock, 46, of California, co-owner of a network of online charter schools, was sentenced to four years in prison and fined $ 37.5 million along with a business partner after pleading guilty in a fraud that diverted $220 million in education funding.

■ Julius Hall of Port Wentworth, Ga., vowed to fight a city official’s decision to disqualify him from running for mayor because of a felony conviction for cocaine conspiracy, arguing that the state’s pardons and paroles board restored his civil and political rights.

■ Chadwick Smith of Pascagoula, Miss., said that “If you can’t have a place to go play, you don’t have anything,” as construction began on a series of improvements to a park beneath the Singing River Bridge.

■ The Rev. Megan Rohrer oversees nearly 200 California and Nevada congregations of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America after being installed as the denomination’s first openly transgender bishop, signaling “all that is possible when we trust God to shepherd us forward.”