Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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■ Tawainna Anderson filed a wrongful death suit against TikTok, the social network she claims targeted her 10-year-old daughter with a game that encourages participan­ts to see how long they can hold their breath, which she says contribute­d to her child’s death.

■ Jacinda Ardern, prime minster of New Zealand, posted a photo of her positive covid-19 test result in an Instagram post announcing her infection and wrote, “To anyone else out there, isolating or dealing with COVID, I hope you take good care of yourselves.”

■ Mekhi Speed, the 18-year-old cousin of Amir Locke, pleaded guilty to a murder count in a case that led police to the Minneapoli­s apartment where a SWAT team officer fatally shot Locke while conducting a no-knock search warrant.

■ N.P. Narvekar, chief executive officer of Harvard Management Co., the entity that runs the university’s endowment, received about $1 million in base salary and had about another $5.2 million in deferred compensati­on, the institutio­n reported.

■ Donmonick Martin, 30, of Chalmette, La., was ordered to pay nearly $13,500 in restitutio­n, spend two months of house arrest and three years on probation for his role in a $300,000 lost baggage scam in which he and two others “submitted over 180 false claims to commercial airlines,” federal prosecutor­s said.

■ Ariel Robinson, 30, of Simpsonvil­le, S.C., the season 20 winner of Food Network’s “Worst Cooks in America,” was found guilty in the beating death last year of a 3-year-old foster child in her care and was sentenced to life in prison.

■ Nick Mosby, Baltimore City Council president and husband of state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby, was ordered by the city’s Board of Ethics to stop accepting money from a legal defense fund that took donations from at least two city contractor­s and it ruled he violated an ethics ordinance.

■ Rene Trigueros-Hernandez, pastor of a Pentecosta­l church in San Jose, Calif., was arrested on child abuse charges in connection with his 3-year-old granddaugh­ter’s death during a two-hour exorcism he performed to “liberate her of her evil spirits.”

■ Lt. Col. Marnee Losurdo, who serves at the Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss., said members of the Hurricane Hunters were discipline­d for making an unauthoriz­ed stop in an aircraft to pick up a crew member’s BMW motorcycle in Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.

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