Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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■ Diarmuid Martin, the archbishop of Dublin, called on Pope Francis to speak frankly about the “darkness” of clergy sex abuse during his visit to Ireland for the church’s World Meeting of Families, after new revelation­s of misconduct in the U.S. Catholic Church.

■ Robert Layton, 72, was arrested, police in Thatcher, Ariz., said, after he drove into the parking lot at a high school dance to complain about the loud music, pulled out a gun and waved it around, and started pulling on wires to disable the music before the DJ at the event wrestled him to the ground and disarmed him.

■ Esperanza Franco, who came to the U.S. from Spain for law school and has been working with a nonprofit that provides legal defense for people facing deportatio­n, says she now faces deportatio­n herself after her student visa expired and she failed to get an employer-sponsored visa.

■ Tammy Wynnell Crews, 46, of Jacksonvil­le, Fla., was charged with grand theft after, authoritie­s said, she stole a donation jar containing about $600, money that was meant to help the family of a slain 7-year-old girl with funeral expenses. ■ Seif Eddin Mustafa, who is accused of hijacking an EgyptAir flight using a fake suicide belt in 2016 and ordering it to land in Cyprus, was extradited to his homeland after giving up a threeyear legal fight to avoid the transfer, authoritie­s said.

■ Michael Coppola, who faces drug charges over accusation­s he bought cocaine and had it shipped to his post office box, resigned as chief of the Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department in New Jersey.

■ Julie Anne Genter, New Zealand’s minister for women and associate minister for health and transport, wrote on social media that it was a “beautiful Sunday morning for a bike ride,” as she cycled to a hospital in Auckland to give birth.

■ Kendra Skinner, Southeast Missouri State University’s residence life director, said three students have already been approved for a pilot program to let them take their dogs or cats with them to one of the school’s dorms, which Skinner said was chosen because it has tile, rather than carpeted, floors.

■ Theodore Symonds was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to child-sex charges, with U.S. prosecutor­s saying he flew repeatedly to the Dominican Republic to abuse two teenage girls and even got their names tattooed on him, as they did his name on them.

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