In the news

■ Todd Grant Yonkman, the pastor of First Congregational Church in Stamford, Conn., called a statue depicting Marilyn Monroe standing over a subway grate with the air flaring up her dress an odd choice for the city to place in a park across from the church, where parishioners have a full view of Monroe’s behind.

■ David Stirrat, the principal of California’s Petaluma High School, defended cutting off valedictorian Lulabel Seitz’s microphone when she went off the approved script during her commencement speech and touched on sexual assault allegations at the school.

■ Lori Darbonne, director of the Meauregard Parish, La., Tourist Commission, said crews will make a 3-D scan of the Gothic jail in DeRidder to superimpose over a New Orleans site and use as the setting for a horror movie being filmed in New Orleans.

■ Meghan Aguilar, a Los Angeles police detective, said a suspect, who had a medical emergency at a police station and was taken to a hospital, was shot by an officer during a struggle in the hospital exam room.

■ Dr. Daniel Hoft of St. Louis University said a research project is paying $3,500 to volunteers who agree to be exposed to the flu after receiving either a vaccine or a placebo and to stay 10-12 days in a hotel that’s been converted into a quarantine unit, explaining that it’s a way to “learn a lot more, a lot faster” about the effectiveness of vaccines.

■ Thomas Irwin, 30, who crashed into a fence in Garland, Texas, and was shot at by police as he fled in an SUV with two children in it, was treated for gunshot wounds at a hospital, authorities said.

■ Dr. Rassan Tarabein of Daphne, Ala., was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay $15 million after pleading guilty to health care fraud and unlawfully distributing a controlled substance for luring patients to his clinic for medically unnecessary exams and procedures.

■ Barbara Pilchard, 74, of Hebron, Md., faces 16 felony animal-cruelty counts, in addition to 48 misdemeanor counts of animal abuse and neglect, after officials reported finding dozens of dead and sick horses on her property.

■ Nicole Myers, 37, faces assault and other charges after she attacked a vice principal at her son’s elementary school when she was told that she had to go to the school’s office to sign the boy out, Philadelphia police said.