Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

In the news

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■ Barbara Bush, the former first lady, spent a lowkey 92nd birthday Thursday at the family’s compound in Kennebunkp­ort, Maine, just a few days ahead of the birthday of her husband, former President George H.W. Bush, who turns 93 on Monday.

■ Jonathan Hinkle, 28, called 911 asking for help getting to a Florida Hooters restaurant, saying his grandmothe­r had suffered a stroke in its parking lot, but ended up in the Brevard County jail when deputies figured out the grandmothe­r was fine.

■ Butch Arbin, head of the Ocean City, Md., beach patrol, said that lacking an opinion from the state attorney general, he’s directed his officers no longer to tell women who sunbathe topless “Hey, you can’t do that,” even if other beachgoers complain.

■ Mark Howell, a spokesman for the Transporta­tion Security Administra­tion, said baggage operations at the Birmingham, Ala., airport were temporaril­y suspended so a bomb squad could remove four 40mm grenade rounds from a checked piece of luggage.

■ Janusz Adamski, 49, was banned from climbing in Nepal for 10 years and faces deportatio­n after officials said the Polish man scaled Mount Everest in May from the Chinese side but descended on the Nepal side without a climbing permit or a visa to enter the country.

■ Cyril Lunn, 69, who rented a snowmobile in Presque Isle, Maine, to cross the border into Canada on a remote trail to avoid charges that he hid up to $4 million in cash after declaring bankruptcy, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison, prosecutor­s said.

■ Yuba Sharma, 43, of Rochester, Pa., angry that his food included onions, threatened to shoot the restaurant owner and then pulled down his pants and exposed himself, resulting in his arrest on terroristi­c-threatenin­g and other counts, police said.

■ Carolyn Fennell, spokesman for the Executive Airport in Orlando, Fla., said a private plane was damaged during a 2 a.m. landing when it struck and killed an 11-foot, 500-pound alligator that had wandered onto a runway.

■ Rhett Guidry, 24, Dodie Bouley, 19, and Kyle Thibodaux, 23, all of Jennings, La., were arrested on charges of illegally taking wildlife, including two alligators, after investigat­ors were alerted to a video posted on social media showing the three men using a rifle to shoot animals from a moving truck.

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