10. FORMER LAWMAKER SENTENCED. A federal judge sentences civil rights activist and former state lawmaker Tyrone Brooks to serve a year and a day in prison. The Atlanta Democrat had pleaded guilty to one count of filing a false tax document and no contest to five counts of mail and wire fraud. A hearing on the restitution Brooks will be required to pay is set for January. Prosecutors said Brooks solicited about $1 million in contributions from the mid-1990s to 2012 from individuals and corporate donors, saying the money would be used to fight illiteracy in poor communities and for other specific causes. Instead, they said, Brooks used the money for personal expenses. HYOSUB SHIN/AJC FILE