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Sheriff Jim Johnson of Lee County, Miss., says his jail staff wasn't fooled when a 28-year-old woman sent a fax purporting to be from county justice court ordering the release of her boyfriend, a gambit that landed her in the same jail.

Larry James Black Jr. and Joshua Daniel Powell of Alabama were sentenced to 30 months in prison and 15 months, respectively, for attempting to divert $492,000 in customer payments from their former employer, Chick-fil-A, to their own bank accounts.

Ted Terry, a county commissioner in DeKalb County, Ga., protested "an antiquated policy, an outdated, war-on-drugs policy that is unjust, unfair," but his colleagues unanimously rejected his proposal to do away with marijuana testing for some job applicants.

Kristen Nordlund of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says all 100 longtailed macaque monkeys are now accounted for after several escaped when a truck towing a trailer loaded with the lab animals collided with a dump truck on a Pennsylvania highway.

Paul Dergarabedian with media analyst Comscore called it "a very slow weekend" with no "big breakout hit," yet "Spider-Man: No Way Home" stole first place back from "Scream" in U.S. movie theaters and became the sixth-highest-grossing film of all time globally.

Rodney Bennett, 55, the University of Southern Mississippi's first Black president, announced that he's stepping down after a decade at the helm when his contract expires next year, saying he has "learned a great deal ... grown a great deal" at the school.

Callistus Crichlow, a brother at the Monastary of the Holy Spirits outside Atlanta, says the monastery's pandemic shutdown has meant "we just experienced a little bit more silence and solitude of the monastic life during this journey, and a lot of the brothers have really welcomed that."

Jacinda Ardern, 41, prime minister of New Zealand, is postponing her wedding and announced new covid-19 restrictions after discovery of nine cases of the omicron variant in a single family that had flown to Auckland to attend a separate wedding.

Shane McInerney, 29, of Galway, Ireland, was released on bond but could face prison time after federal officials say he refused to wear a mask, threw a can that hit another passenger, and pulled down his pants and exposed his buttocks to an attendant on a Delta flight from Dublin to New York.

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