Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

In the news

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■ Mohammed bin Salman, deputy crown prince of Saudi Arabia, said plans for a Six Flags theme park in a new entertainm­ent city include a safari area and that the city will serve as recreation­al destinatio­n for young Saudis as well as create jobs.

■ Kate Kimble, police spokesman in Fort Collins, Colo., told the Coloradoan that a 22-year-old woman, after her boyfriend was arrested, struck an officer, prompting the officer — as seen in a video shared widely on social media — to throw the woman face-first onto a sidewalk, behavior Kimble said was “standard arrest control.”

■ Philippe Sacher, a 38-year-old from Munich, described as “out of the ordinary” a half-marathon he ran in Pyongyang, North Korea, which holds the race annually, to the delight of hundreds of foreign runners, as part of nationwide festivitie­s to mark the birthday of the late Kim Il Sung, the country’s “eternal president.”

■ Ricky Reed, fire battalion chief in Taylors, S.C., said several children were hospitaliz­ed after a gust of wind lifted into the air a bounce house at a church carnival near Greenville.

■ Nurendra Aryal, a Nepalese forest officer, said authoritie­s were searching for poachers who, under the cover of a stormy night, entered the Chitwan National Forest in southern Nepal and killed a rare, one-horned rhinoceros, cutting off the horn.

■ Amanda Barnes, Williamson County, Ill., clerk, said the election for village president in Colp that resulted in a tie will be decided later this month with a coin toss, as dictated by state law.

■ Supreet Kaur, a television news anchor for India’s IBC24 channel in Chhattisga­rh state, was lauded across India for her composure while reading a morning news bulletin that described a fatal road crash in which one of the three victims was her husband.

■ Sgt. James Leonard of the sheriff’s office in Saratoga County, N.Y., described the “curdling scream” that led authoritie­s following the path of a sewer main to find a 14-year-old boy who had fallen in a half-mile away while playing with friends.

■ Jackie Marchbanks of Norman, Okla., said she couldn’t be more proud of her 16-year-old daughter, Makenna, who began a shoe-collection program, Makenna’s Sole Purpose, through which she has collected hundreds of pairs of shoes to distribute to families that can’t afford them.

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