Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

In the news

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■ Gary Hood, commander of the Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes unit, said a 25-yearold Alabama woman was shot to death and two people with her were wounded when someone fired into their vehicle in what authoritie­s said appeared to have been a road-rage incident.

■ Scott Thomas Miller, 28, who is accused of shoving a Maryland public library board member while protesting a Drag Queen Storytime event, was charged with assault and disorderly conduct and has been banned from Anne Arundel County libraries.

■ Deven Strauther, 28, accused of firing back after being shot by a St. Louis jewelry store owner and an off-duty officer during an attempted heist, was charged with robbery after being linked to the crime by blood found in the getaway vehicle, court documents say.

■ Shay Michael Thome, 48, of Huntsville, Ala., was arrested and charged with first-degree assault, accused of biting off a woman’s finger during a fight before being tackled by several men.

■ Krystal Whipple, 21, was indicted on murder, robbery and other charges after police said she tried to pay for a $35 manicure with a fraudulent credit card in Las Vegas before telling a salon worker that she was going to her car to get cash, then used the vehicle to run over the worker, killing her, when she tried to prevent Whipple from driving away.

■ LeVette Fuller, 41, a City Council member in Shreveport, was arrested on drunken-driving and texting-while-driving charges after, police said, she told an officer that she was driving too fast around a curve while texting and hit a parked car.

■ Andres Alcaraz, a police officer in Cobb County, Ga., who resigned from his position, was arrested on felony sexual-assault charges after, police said, a woman told another officer during an unrelated incident that she had been sexually assaulted by an on-duty officer.

■ Kevin Dietz, a Detroit television reporter who is white, said in a social media post that he apologizes to anyone he offended and that he has left his job after telling colleagues gathered at a journalism conference that they were “probably going to have to crop the black reporter out of the photo.”

■ Raymand Vannieuwen­hoven, 82, pleaded innocent in the fatal shooting 43 years ago of a couple at a park in Silver Cliff, Wis., after investigat­ors said tests of Vannieuwen­hoven’s DNA from a licked envelope matched DNA collected at the crime scene.

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