Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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■ Sister Margaret Ann, wearing her full habit in a photo posted on social media by police, wielded a chain saw as she helped clear downed trees in the roadways around Archbishop Coleman Carroll High School near Miami.

■ Sean Spicer, former White House press secretary under President Donald Trump, will join former Army intelligen­ce officer Chelsea Manning, Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowsk­i and MSNBC hosts Joe Scarboroug­h and Mika Brzezinski as visiting fellows this fall at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics.

■ Martin Shkreli, the former hedge fund manager awaiting sentencing for defrauding investors, had his $5 million bail revoked after he offered his Facebook followers a $5,000 bounty if they grabbed a strand of Hillary Clinton’s hair during her book signing tour.

■ Lowrey Webster IV, 38, accused of stealing and abandoning a seafood truck before forcing an elderly couple from their car and fleeing in it, prompting a chase that ended in his arrest, was charged with carjacking and eluding officers, police in Biloxi, Miss., said. ■ Joseph Comstock, 31, a former ambulance technician in Gallatin, Mo., pleaded guilty to replacing vials of the pain-killing drugs morphine and fentanyl with sterile water and to sometimes treating trauma patients with watered-down drugs, federal prosecutor­s said.

■ Mario Antoine of Raymore, Mo., convicted of wire fraud for persuading two dozen women to have sex with him by claiming they were auditionin­g for pornograph­ic movies and then threatenin­g to send images to family and friends if they complained about not being paid, was sentenced to 10 years in prison, prosecutor­s said.

■ Valerie Couch hopes a public plea on social media combined with help from Cleveland police will encourage a thief to return her 15-pound mini pig named Spam, which was stolen from her home along with jewelry, television­s and a camera.

■ Gabriel Bishop of Sellersvil­le, Pa., escaped injury but got several tickets after his car’s GPS device led him to drive along a park bicycle path before he tumbled into the Lehigh River in Easton when the path narrowed and he tried to turn around.

■ Tatyanna Watkins and her boyfriend, David Knight, got into a three-way conference call with a Miami obstetrici­an who talked the couple through the delivery of their daughter, Destiny, when rescue teams couldn’t reach them as Hurricane Irma passed.

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