Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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■ The Rev. Stephen Carlsen said Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral in Indianapol­is is continuing to protest Trump administra­tion immigratio­n policies by replacing statues of Mary, Joseph and Jesus in a cage on church grounds with a mirror so visitors can envision the pain felt by separated families.

■ Marsha Thomas, a middle school principal in Athens, Ga., said thieves broke into the school during the summer break and stole $30,000 in supplies and gear, including paper, markers, paint supplies, band instrument­s and 60 tablet computers.

■ Dmitri Moua and Zachary Greenwald, both 16, filed a federal lawsuit after they were barred from joining the girls competitiv­e dance teams at their suburban Minneapoli­s high schools, seeking to have the exclusion declared unconstitu­tional.

■ Caroline Biden, 31, a niece of former Democratic Vice President Joe Biden, apologized for racking up $110,000 in charges on a borrowed credit card, which she has since repaid, and was sentenced to two years of probation by a New York judge.

■ Matthew Davis, 19, faces murder and drug charges and Joseph Wilson, 19, faces evidence-tampering and drug counts after police in Conroe, Texas, said a 16-year-old girl was fatally shot while taking selfies and playing with a gun with the two men while in a Houston-area apartment. ■ Bud Backer, a fire chief in Edgewood, Wash., said 911 dispatcher­s told a 12-year-old girl how to perform cardiopulm­onary resuscitat­ion so she could revive her 2-year-old brother after their mother got stuck while pulling the unconsciou­s boy out of a septic tank at their home.

■ Victoria Cravitz, who along with her husband, was wanted in Oregon for nearly two decades in a child-abuse case, was arrested in Mississipp­i after an undertaker entered the name of her newly deceased husband into a computer and discovered that he was on the FBI’s Most Wanted List.

■ Martin Estrada, 31, a jail inmate in Taylor County, Texas, faces escape and other charges after deputies said he slipped off his handcuffs, smashed a patrol car’s window and climbed onto its roof as it sped down a highway toward Abilene.

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