Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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■ Michael Caruso, 31, who escaped through a hole in the ceiling of a bathroom at the Orange City, Fla., police station as an officer stood guard outside, now faces 14 charges, and police said he was running when they caught up with him.

■ Darrell Roberts, 58, was arrested on a charge of being under the influence of an intoxicant after Los Angeles County, Calif., sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a small plane making an emergency landing in a warehouse parking lot.

■ Santos Colon Jr., 17, pleaded guilty as an adult to attempting to provide material support to terrorists in a plot to use a sniper and a bomb to kill Pope Francis while the pontiff was visiting Philadelph­ia in 2015, federal prosecutor­s in Camden, N.J., said.

■ Brian Studdard of Atlanta said a restaurant in Birmingham, Ala., refused to serve him because he was wearing a pink T-shirt emblazoned with a line-drawing of a pair of breasts and the words “Breasts Matter,” which he got for participat­ing in a 5-mile walk to raise breast cancer awareness.

■ Jonathan Kulig, 29, a utility worker with Consolidat­ed Edison, was captured on video saving a man who fell between the rails of New York City subway track just a minute before a train pulled into a Manhattan station.

■ Nathan Schnitzler, 25, of Somerset, Pa., was jailed on drug and child-endangerme­nt charges after state police investigat­ors said they found a 6-year-old child in a car, initially stopped for having a faulty brake light, that contained a mobile methamphet­amine lab.

■ Chet Ellis, a 15-year-old black sophomore at Staples High School in Westport, Conn., won $1,000 in an essay contest on the topic of white privilege, writing about the “unavoidabl­e” racial vexations he faces growing up in an affluent, predominan­tly white town.

■ Gordon Thiry, a police sergeant in Brisbane, Australia, said planes at a nearby airport helped officers locate and rescue a 39-yearold man who had been paddling with fellow kayakers in Moreton Bay when a shark bit off the stern of his 21-foot craft, leaving it sinking.

■ David Hubbard, 57, an Uber driver in Charleston, S.C., was arrested after some passengers heard him talking about “killing people and chasing murderers,” prompting them to jump out at a red light and flag down police, who found a fake police badge and a loaded gun in his SUV.

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