Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

In the news

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■ Barack Obama, the former president, arrived with his family on the island of Bali for a vacation in Indonesia, where he lived for several years as a child, and plans to visit Yogyakarta, an ancient city on the island of Java where his mother, Ann Dunham, did anthropolo­gical research.

■ Apollo Carey, the city attorney for Ferguson, Mo., revealed that the family of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old whose 2014 shooting death by police led to months of protests, has received $1.5 million as settlement in a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city.

■ Arnold Schwarzene­gger, the actor and former California governor, met with French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss climate change, telling reporters afterward that the pair agreed the environmen­t shouldn’t be a partisan issue.

■ Darren Osborne, 47, suspected of driving a van from Cardiff, Wales, to two London mosques and ramming into a crowd of Muslim worshipper­s, leaving one dead, was charged by Metropolit­an Police with murder and attempted murder.

■ Lt. Jeff Neville, a Flint, Mich., airport police officer who was stabbed in the neck by an attacker, is recovering well from the 12-inch slash and should be released from the hospital within a couple of days, doctors said.

■ Samantha LaRochelle, who lost a dual pendant necklace when she was taken to the hospital in Phillipsbu­rg, N.J., where hospital workers apparently threw it in the trash, was reunited with the heirloom after sanitation workers at a nearby trash facility found it in a search of 15 tons of hospital waste.

■ John Hoelzl, of Avon Lake, Ohio, was charged with receiving stolen property, accused of taking, over a period of months, more than 500 signs that he said were eyesores and a distractio­n to drivers.

■ Anthony Lewis of Rochester, N.H., who was cleaning an old house when he discovered an urn containing the remains of a World War II veteran, turned to social media to track down Army Sgt. Chauncey Markham Sr.’s descendent­s and within hours handed over the ashes to Markham’s family.

■ Nate Wilson, who snagged an algae-covered digital camera while fishing in the Tennessee River outside Chattanoog­a, Tenn., was able to retrieve the pictures and posted them online, leading him to Alex Mansur of St. Augustine, Fla., who said he had dropped the camera in the water during a vacation five years ago.

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