Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

In the news

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■ Aaron Bulmer, a Topeka, Kan., police officer, was recorded by his body camera jumping into a city park pond to rescue a 4-year-old autistic boy who had wandered away from home, pulling the boy out of the water and handing him to another man.

■ Robert Rothe, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agent, said someone drilled out a door lock to steal a black rhino horn kept by the University of Vermont in Burlington and that the horn is likely destined for the internatio­nal black market.

■ Joel Puglia, 55, of Rock Hill, S.C., was charged with burglary and petty larceny after sheriff’s deputies said he broke into a neighbor’s house where he had a drink of moonshine, ate a kosher dill pickle and made a pimento-cheese sandwich.

■ Holly Donahoo, 36, of Louisville, Ky., whose vehicle stopped when police used spike strips to flatten the tires, halting a chase that began in Maryland and ended in Pennsylvan­ia, first identified herself as Hillary Clinton when she was arrested on driving-under-the-influence and other charges.

■ Shawn Lacey, a police captain in Westerly, R.I., said a golfer first used a club to push away an aggressive fox that charged out of the woods near the second hole of a country club course but then struck and killed the animal, which later tested positive for rabies.

■ Leo Garner, 47, was arrested in Monroe County, Pa., on attempted-murder and other charges after police said he bit the tip off a woman’s nose, tried to choke her and bit her elsewhere on her body until bystanders intervened.

■ Larry Lilliman of Houma, La., who found a small casket inscribed with a man’s name in a garbage can on the city’s Main Street, located the man’s 85-year-old mother after a two-month search and sent the Delaware woman the ashes of her son, who died in 2003.

■ Nicole Covey, 34, of Sugar Creek, Mo., and Devon Davis-Amura, 22, of Independen­ce, pleaded guilty in federal court to participat­ing in a robbery conspiracy, in which they placed online ads for sexual services, then robbed at gunpoint seven people who responded to the ads.

■ Stephanie Barr took her 8-year-old, brown-andwhite donkey, Oliver, to join several therapy dogs in offering some finals-week stress relief for students at Montana State University in Bozeman, letting the students pet, hug, play and take selfies with the animals.

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