Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
In the news
■ Pam Wood and her husband, Bruce, whose company offers hot-air balloon rides near Aspen, Colo., estimate that they lost between $15,000 and $20,000 in income when the Secret Service temporarily blocked flights because Vice President Mike Pence and his family were vacationing nearby.
■ Mike Chapman, sheriff of Loudoun County, Va., cautioned people about the “dangers of walking and playing on frozen ponds and rivers,” after a group of young people in an SUV drove onto a partially frozen part of the Potomac River had to be rescued when the ice gave way.
■ Nick Merrill, a spokesman for Bill and Hillary Clinton, said “all is OK” after a small, quickly extinguished fire started in a building used by the Secret Service near the Clintons’ residence in Chappaqua, N.Y.
■ Fernando del Valle Villalobos, 25, said he was astonished to see a fellow passenger who was fed up with waiting to get off a delayed Ryanair flight from London to Malaga, Spain, “very calmly” open an emergency exit and jump onto a wing after the plane landed.
■ Vito Perillo, 93-yearold World War II veteran, was sworn in as mayor of Tinton Falls, N.J., after he wore out two pairs of shoes campaigning door to door to upset the incumbent, a longtime city official who over the years had served in several posts.
■ Joe Ganim, 58, an ex-convict who is mayor of Bridgeport, Conn., was a passenger in a vehicle stopped by police for going 87 mph on an interstate shortly after Ganim filed paperwork to join a crowded field seeking the Democratic nomination to run for governor.
■ Brian Ingberg, owner of a bar in Copenhagen, Denmark, said thieves made off with some Russo-Baltique vodka in a bottle made of 6.6 pounds of gold and an equal amount of silver, with a diamond-encrusted cap and resembling a vintage car grille, valued at $1.3 million.
■ Bruce Smith, a former Boston police detective, faces a year of probation and a $7,500 fine after pleading guilty to claiming to be on official police business so he could take his gun on planes during personal trips and allowing a friend to bypass airport security.
■ Anthony Guglielmi, a Chicago police spokesman, said a 27-year-old woman was wounded in the arm as she argued with a woman seated in a car who pulled a gun and fired several shots, an occurrence that was livestreamed on Facebook.