Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

In the news

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■ Colleen Reynolds, a spokeswoma­n for the Renaissanc­e Charter School in Cooper City, Fla., said a child “inadverten­tly” took to school a package of candy laced with THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, and shared it with friends, resulting in nine students being hospitaliz­ed with stomach pains.

■ Richard Dobbins pleaded guilty during his trial in Columbus, Miss., and was sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of secretly photograph­ing for lewd purposes, after a jury was shown video from a camera set up in a bathroom to record a teenage relative while she showered.

■ Shannon Kent, coroner of Lake County, Colo., was indicted on a charge of second-degree misconduct, accused of sending his wife on numerous death investigat­ions even though she was not authorized to do so.

■ Ellen McMillion of Brandon, Fla., was banned for life from Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., after, Orange County sheriff’s deputies said, she hit a taxi driver who didn’t have a cigarette to give to her, then later kicked a deputy who intervened. ■ Gary Horton, principal of Wilson High School in Alabama, said some stall doors in the boys’ restroom were removed after a student passed out in the restroom while vaping, adding it could be a temporary fix while the school figures out another solution.

■ Dakota Randall posted video to social media of a Tesla on the Massachuse­tts Turnpike in which the driver appears to be dozing and the passenger seems to be sleeping, and Randall said he honked a couple of times to try to wake the driver but admitted he did not call police. ■ Ian Thomas, a city councilman in Columbia, Mo., pleaded innocent to a misdemeano­r charge alleging he worked out a deal for two developers to donate $40,000 to an affordable housing group in exchange for Thomas supporting their developmen­t plans.

■ Marcus Saaf was denied a vanity license plate by the Swedish Transport Agency after the owner of an American car sought a plate with the letters TRUMP, a reference to U.S. President Donald Trump, with the government agency saying it doesn’t approve letter combinatio­ns referring to politics.

■ Andrew Adams, a circuit judge in Clark County, Ind., pleaded guilty to a misdemeano­r battery charge stemming from a fight outside an Indianapol­is fast food restaurant during which he and another Clark County judge, Bradley Jacobs, were shot and wounded.

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