Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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Luther Strange, Alabama’s attorney general, told the audience at a Madison County Republican Men’s Club breakfast that America’s founders would not have approved of the Supreme Court deciding issues such as gay marriage.
David O’Leary, a Las Vegas Police Department captain who in December 2013 resigned rather than be demoted for helping Guns N’ Roses guitarist Daren Jay “DJ” Ashba use the department’s helicopter for a wedding proposal, has been ordered reinstated by a Nevada labor-relations agency.
Aristotle Sandoval, governor of Mexico’s Jalisco state, said 150 state police officers disarmed police in two towns after an investigation of a helicopter downed May 1 turned up evidence that the police departments had been infiltrated by organized crime.
Robert Reese, a Texas man who had been wanted for 13 years on warrants of aggravated sexual assault of a child, was arrested in Spokane, Wash., after a tip from someone who saw a feature about Reese on the John Walsh show Justice Network.
King Mohammed VI of Morocco, who in March assigned a committee to study the country’s abortion restrictions, ordered that the laws be loosened to allow abortions in cases of rape, incest, danger to the mother’s health or fetal malformation.
Bryan Binkholder, 43, a Wentzville, Mo., man who provided investment- and financial-planning advice online and through a radio talk show, was sentenced to nine years in prison and ordered to pay about $3.6 million in restitution for misusing money he solicited for real estate developments.
Raymond Wang, 17, of Vancouver, British Columbia, won the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, the world’s largest high school science competition, and took home a $75,000 prize for inventing a way to keep germs from spreading in airplane cabins.
Kerrian Javana Clofer, 26, was arrested by Calcasieu Parish, La., deputies and charged with second-degree cruelty to a juvenile and false imprisonment, accused of burning an 8-year-old’s hands because the child ate a snack without permission, and leaving the girl tied to a bed while Clofer went to work or slept.
Felipe Gonzalez, former Spanish prime minister, said he plans to visit Venezuela on Monday to advise lawyers defending jailed opposition leaders Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma, despite objections from the Venezuelan government.