Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

In the news

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■ Jevon Clark, a veterinari­an in Kalispell, Mont., revived a cat named Fluffy that was found near death in a snowbank, covered from head to tail in ice and snow, saying the cat is normally a little crabby, so he knew it would be fine when it began growling at caretakers after about an hour in a warm cage.

■ Nancy Oakley, a city commission­er in Madeira Beach, Fla., who is accused of sexually harassing a former city official by licking his face and groping him at a public event, resigned after the state Ethics Commission fined her $5,000 and called on the governor to publicly reprimand her.

■ Blaze Ayers, 28, an inmate at the Jackson County jail in Brownstown, Ind., who ran from officers and locked himself in a medical room, was captured when he fell through the ceiling in the booking area as he tried to escape, deputies said.

■ James Gordon, 37, of Jefferson City, Mo., who was driving a homemade go-cart that overturned, injuring a 5-year-old child, pleaded guilty to misdemeano­r driving while intoxicate­d and was ordered to complete a treatment program.

■ Andres Lopes Elorez, a veterinari­an from Medellin, Colombia, who was convicted in New York of surgically implanting liquid heroin in the bodies of live puppies to smuggle the drug into the U.S., was sentenced to six years in prison.

■ Guadalupe Lara, 33, and her husband hopped on a Chicago Transit Authority bus when she began feeling contractio­ns but didn’t make it very far, giving birth to a daughter on the bus 3 miles from the hospital, family members and paramedics said.

■ Matthew Aimers, 31, of Willingbor­o, N.J., faces indecent assault, indecent exposure and other charges after he sexually assaulted a teenage waitress at his wedding reception and was led away in handcuffs after a drunken brawl at a reception hall in Richboro, Pa., police said.

■ Luis Frias, 41, accused of stabbing his ex-wife 41 times, killing her in Oklahoma in 2013, was among the U.S. Marshals Service’s 15 most-wanted fugitives until his arrest near Guadalajar­a, Mexico, and he has been returned to the U.S., marshals said.

■ Kyle Cassidy and three members of a lunchtime running club, chased and helped police catch a man who ran past the group after stealing a laptop computer and cellphone from a University of Pennsylvan­ia building in West Philadelph­ia, police said.

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