Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

In the news

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■ Domenic Esposito, a Boston-based artist who helped place an 11-foot steel sculpture of a bent drug spoon outside Purdue Pharma’s headquarte­rs in Stamford, Conn., to protest the company’s opioid drug sales, can get the artwork back from police, who seized it for obstructin­g the sidewalk.

■ Liz Rose of Wilmington, Mass., said she had started to give up hope of recapturin­g Tiggs, her 4-yearold white tegu lizard, when the 3½-foot-long animal, a little skinnier than when it escaped a month ago, was found in a neighbor’s shed.

■ Manuel Oliver and his wife, Patricia, whose son, Joaquin, was killed Feb. 14 when a gunman attacked a high school in Parkland, Fla., attended a “back-toschool” fashion show in Boston featuring bullet-resistant vests, helmets and other safety gear at an event calling for stricter gun laws.

■ Jonathan White, 40, of Hardin County, Tenn., under investigat­ion for making threats on social media, was arrested after he provided a live pipe bomb to an undercover agent, state investigat­ors said.

■ Cathy Sanders, owner of a buffalo farm near Pleasant Lake, Ind., said just a handful of the 58 bison that escaped their pens to roam the 300-acre property have been recaptured, prompting police to warn area residents not to approach the animals because “they can become aggressive.”

■ Adam Kurtz, a federal wildlife manager, said it is “really frustratin­g when you see people harass these animals,” after an Alabama man was fined $1,500 for touching a Hawaiian monk seal as well as harassing a sea turtle on Kauai and then posting the videos on social media.

■ Shawn Hallett, 38, of Levelland, Texas, was arrested on voyeurism charges in Greenville, S.C., after he was caught wearing a wig, makeup and women’s clothing to take pictures of a woman from under the stall divider in a convenienc­e store bathroom.

■ Jason Siesser, 44, of Columbia, Mo., accused of using bitcoins to buy toxins through the mail to kill a woman who rejected him, was arrested after FBI agents said he tried to purchase poison to use as a chemical weapon, federal prosecutor­s said.

■ Sam Click, a police officer in Seagoville, Texas, can be heard on his body camera calling for backup when he spotted a burning home just before the camera recorded him breaking down a back door to rescue a man and his six nephews who were asleep inside.

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