Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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■ Kolby Schroder, 27, of Staatsburg, N.Y., got a ticket for reckless driving and other offenses after he passed a police cruiser at 140 mph before slamming into the rear of another car on a highway in Redhook, N.Y., police said.

■ Neil Gorsuch not only replaced Antonin Scalia as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, but he also got Scalia’s office, which included the mounted head of an elk, nicknamed “Leroy,” that Scalia shot in Colorado in 2003 and that Gorsuch has agreed to let stay.

■ Dorsa Derakhshan­i, 19, an Iranian chess player who was banned from competing for her home country because she didn’t wear an Islamic headscarf when she attended an internatio­nal competitio­n in Gibraltar, has accepted a scholarshi­p to attend St. Louis University in Missouri.

■ Roman Clark, a spokesman for the Baltimore Fire Department, said two students and three teachers were hospitaliz­ed with stomach ailments and their high school was evacuated while firefighte­rs hunted the source of a strong smell that turned out to be pumpkin spice air freshener in a classroom.

■ Kane Gamble, 18, has pleaded guilty in a British court to trying to hack into the computers of the director of the CIA and other U.S. government officials in 2015 and 2016 as part of a group of hackers called “Crackas With Attitude.”

■ John Dunbar said road constructi­on on a Tulsa highway prevented him from pulling over as he drove his wife, Cheyenne, to the hospital, and she delivered their daughter, DelilahMae, on her own in the moving car.

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