In the news

• Hirofumi Yoshimura, Governor of Osaka Prefecture in Japan, welcomed a manufacturer’s donation of 800 cardboard beds for a temporary medical facility for coronavirus patients, saying, “We are very grateful to be able to use the high quality beds used by Olympians. “

• Kathy Carter, lead negotiator for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics, has been elevated to CEO as LA28 begins to accelerate preparations and said a key challenge will be “bringing together talent from a leadership perspective. ‘experience, but also from the point of view of diversity “.

• Dee Byrne, president of Squaw Valley in Olympic Valley, Calif., Said, as the historic ski resort was renamed Palisades Tahoe, that it was easy to change the name because “‘squaw’ is such a hurtful term, and we ‘are not hurtful people. “

• Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V and Jungkook, otherwise known as K-pop superstar boy group BTS and the face of South Korean soft power on the world stage, have assumed a official diplomatic role as “special presidential envoy for future generations and culture.”

• Brandon Hughes, a former prosecutor for Lee County, Alabama, calls on a judge to keep him out of jail and let him serve his 10-month sentence for perjury and ethics in a community corrections program.

• Mike Blakely, a former sheriff of Limestone County, Alabama, was denied his request for a retrial after being sentenced to three years for taking out interest-free loans from a prison fund that held the money of the prisoners and for stealing $ 4,000 from his campaign account.

• Dawn Cramer, a new member of the Kansas City, Missouri, Board of Police Commissioners, insisted she was on the board of directors of two charities, as she claimed in a bio upon his appointment, despite a television report highlighting federal tax records. Say the opposite.

• Mark Shamburger, 61, of Ethel, Louisiana, a contract teacher in a state prison, was jailed for smuggling into a penitentiary and office embezzlement, accused of providing cell phones, cigarettes and alcohol to inmates.

• Jason “Juice” Arteaga-Loayza, 30, of Jersey City, NJ, formerly incarcerated in a state federal prison, was sentenced to 43 months behind bars for his role in a scheme to use drones to smuggle cell phones and accessories, tobacco, diet supplements and glasses.