In the news

■ Isaiah Jarvis of Tulsa rose from a beaning while at bat in a Little League regional tournament game in Texas to console the tearful pitcher, putting his arms around him and saying, “Hey, you’re doing great; let’s go,” as the crowd gave the moment a standing ovation.

■ Shaun Harrison, a former Boston high school dean known to students as “Rev,” who was already in prison for shooting a student he recruited to deal drugs, pleaded guilty to a federal charge of racketeering conspiracy, which will extend his confinement.

■ Igor Dvorskiy, former director of West Hollywood College Preparatory School in California, was sentenced to three months of home confinement for his role in the college admissions bribery scandal, namely allowing cheating on ACT and SAT tests he administered.

■ Reuven Alonalayoff, marketing director for Hudson Regional Hospital in Secaucus, N.J., faces weapons charges after a bogus bomb threat led detection dogs to an unlocked office closet full of firearms, including 11 handguns and 27 rifles and shotguns.

■ Shawn Parcells of Kansas, a self-taught pathology assistant with no formal education who was convicted of performing illegal autopsies, was permanently banned from doing business in the state and ordered to pay $700,000 in restitution and fines as he awaits sentencing.

■ Zhou Xiaoxuan, a former intern at state broadcaster China Central Television, said “I really hope that people don’t have to suffer in the future” as a court rejected her appeal seeking an apology and damages in a high-profile case from the country’s short-lived #MeToo movement.

■ Stacey Abrams, Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Georgia, saw her campaigning interrupted by covid-19, though she was experiencing just mild symptoms “and looks forward to traveling across the state to meet Georgians as soon as possible.”

■ Margaret Harris of the World Health Organization said people must realize “that the transmission we see now is among humans” as the agency expressed sorrow over the killing of monkeys in Brazil amid fears of monkeypox contagion.

■ Sebastien Eteve of NielsenIQ said “French consumers have raised demand for mustard and stocked up just in case, stimulating out-ofstock situations” as the frustrated nation adapts to a lingering shortage of its beloved Dijon condiment.