Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

In the news

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■ Daniel Ohebshalom, a New York City landlord who goes by Dan Shalom, turned himself in after a warrant for his arrest was issued when he was found in contempt of court for failing to correct nearly 700 outstandin­g housing violations at two buildings he owns in Upper Manhattan.

■ Rashad Trice, a 27-yearold Michigan man, pleaded guilty to kidnapping and killing a 2-year-old girl after saying he took her from a former girlfriend in Lansing before strangling and leaving the girl in a Detroit alley last July.

■ Luke D’Wit, a 34-yearold British IT worker, was sentenced to 37 years minimum in prison after being found guilty of murder in the deaths of a British couple after poisoning them with fentanyl and monitoring them remotely to track their conditions.

■ Kevin Hart, the 44-yearold comedian, was honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

■ Henry Whitehorn, a Democratic candidate for sheriff of Caddo Parish, La., was elected as the parish’s first Black sheriff after winning election again months after a November one-vote margin win was declared unofficial when courts found evidence six people voted illegally or were ineligible.

■ Chase Daniel Jones, 18, was arrested and charged in a fatal four-vehicle crash in a Seattle suburb that killed a woman and three children in her van, as well as resulting in the hospitaliz­ation of four others and Jones himself.

■ David Manini, a pilgrim from Italy, said “although there is war, in my impression I don’t feel any kind of tension,” as he and thousands of other Christians attended Palm Sunday celebratio­ns at the sacred Mount of Olives in Jerusalem for the start of Holy Week.

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