Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

In the news

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■ Jill Biden, the U.S. first lady, is urging women to consult their doctors about getting mammograms or other cancer screenings, saying in a new public service announceme­nt for Breast Cancer Awareness Month that early detection saves lives.

■ Maria Cantwell, a Democratic U.S. senator from Washington, is urging congressio­nal colleagues to examine how the fentanyl crisis has disproport­ionately affected Native communitie­s, citing five deaths from overdoses in one week recently in Lummi Nation.

■ Patrick Wimberly, 49, mayor of the suburban Detroit city of Inkster, was indicted on a federal bribery charge over allegation­s he took $50,000 to facilitate the sale of city property to an outside party.

■ Ryan Coe, a spokesman for the Tustin, Calif., Police Department, said witnesses saw a man on the roof of a building removing copper pipe before he was struck and killed by a car while trying to run across a busy freeway.

■ Michael Arnold, 65, of Manchester, N.H., was arrested on charges including aggravated stalking after police said he was accused of stalking an upstate New York woman by using his small plane, which he had been flying out of a southern Vermont airport.

■ David K. Sullivan, 19, of Medfield, Mass., faces charges, including operating a boat while intoxicate­d, related to a Cape Cod crash that killed a teen girl and seriously injured two other people, according to an indictment handed up by a Barnstable County grand jury.

■ Glenn Sulmasy resigned as president of Nichols College in Massachuse­tts after an investigat­ion initiated by the school uncovered a sexual harassment scandal during his tenure as a professor at the Coast Guard Academy.

■ Matthew Antonio Zakrzewski, 34, a nanny who worked for families across Southern California, was convicted of sexually assaulting 16 boys in his care and showing another boy child pornograph­y, prosecutor­s in Orange County, Calif., said.

■ Marina Ovsyanniko­va, who lives in France after escaping house arrest in Moscow, a former Russian state television journalist who staged an on-air protest after the Kremlin launched its fullscale invasion of Ukraine, was sentenced in absentia to 8½ years in a prison colony on charges of spreading false informatio­n about Russia’s army.

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