Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

In the news

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■ Craig Mosher, a farmer whose bull wandered onto a road in Killington, Vt., and caused a fatal crash in 2015, pleaded guilty to reckless endangerme­nt and was sentenced to six-12 months of probation and 50 hours of community service for negligentl­y maintainin­g his fence.

■ Branden Bullerin, 19, was arrested, sheriff’s deputies said, accused of selling 13 Walt Disney World tickets for $1,000 on Craigslist to a family from Tampa, Fla., which after arriving at the Orlando park found that the tickets had expired.

■ William Lewis, 90, facing fraud charges in Philadelph­ia, accused of improperly collecting more than $450,000 in retirement benefits since 1991, had been on the lam since walking away from a Maryland jail in 1970, prosecutor­s said.

■ San Juan Garcia, 57, who prosecutor­s said had a blood alcohol level of more than twice the legal limit when his vehicle struck a motorcycli­st in 2014, was sentenced to 30 years in prison after being convicted in San Antonio of his 11th drunken-driving offense.

■ Jocelyn Burmeister, 33, of West Babylon, N.Y., is suing a Manhattan restaurant after tearing a ligament in her knee on the eatery’s mechanical bull ride, claiming workers shouldn’t have let her get on because she was “visibly intoxicate­d.”

■ Christine Braswell is charged with assault with a deadly weapon, after police say she used her car to run down a man she caught rifling through her purse in a parking lot in Ashville, N.C., causing him minor injuries and resulting in his arrest on larceny and other counts.

■ Jerry Kinney, a New York wildlife officer, said neighbors of a Jamestown man complained that he was harboring a wild animal, resulting in a ticket for the man and the release of a whitetaile­d-deer fawn that the man had been keeping on the second floor of his home.

■ Elijah Wilson, 48, a former police officer who led a Crime Stoppers group in Holly Springs, Miss., was indicted on accusation­s of spending $8,300 in Crime Stoppers funds to charter a limousine round-trip to Las Vegas to attend a fraternity convention.

■ Sherrie Richter, 48, of Frenchtown Township, Mich., faces assault with intent to murder and arson charges after investigat­ors said she bound her 11-yearold son and locked him in a car that she tried to set afire, but then let him go when the car didn’t catch fire.

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