Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

In the news

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■ Alain Robert, 57, an urban climber known as the “French Spiderman,” is facing a fine after he scaled a 502-foot glass building in Frankfurt, Germany, in about 20 minutes and was met at the bottom by police who escorted him away.

■ Juan Jimenez, 37, a New York city detective who monitors sex offenders, was arrested on sex-abuse charges, accused of groping and trying to kiss a 12-yearold girl in his apartment building.

■ Preston Moore, 30, of Kansas City, Mo., whose driver’s license had been suspended after a previous driving-while-intoxicate­d conviction, was sentenced to 26 years in prison for driving the wrong way on a highway while drunk and hitting another vehicle headon, killing a couple who had been married less than nine months.

■ Adrian King, 29, a prison cadet working at a state lockup in St. Gabriel, La., has been fired and faces charges of malfeasanc­e in office and introducti­on of contraband into a penal institute after a small amount of marijuana was found in his car that he intended to smuggle to inmates, investigat­ors say.

■ Lynda Tennent said she thought she was being robbed when she was kicked in the head by a deer as it leapt over her car while she was filling up with gas in Brunswick, Ga.

■ Pedro Manzano, 46, of Cameron, Mo., and Juan Manzano, 52, of St. Joseph, Mo., who have been charged with sexual assault counts dating back more than 15 years in New Jersey, are facing extraditio­n to that state.

■ Kosaksy Phillip, 26, of Joplin, Mo., pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and faces a prison term of up to 20 years in the slaying of a 33-year-old man, who authoritie­s say Phillip shot four times in a hotel room after the two argued.

■ Frank Naass, 52, a suspect in the killings of two women, one who was stabbed and set on fire and the other who had tried to help her, was arrested at a fast-food restaurant in Goettingen, Germany, after a two-day manhunt involving 200 officers, and helicopter­s, dogs and drones, police said.

■ Phillip D’Amico, a middle school principal in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., sent an apology letter to parents and said a teacher in a Computer Applicatio­ns class is being investigat­ed after she reportedly gave a quiz asking students to identify the president who matched the following descriptio­n: “45th Pres; 2017; Republican; Real Estate businessma­n; Idiot.”

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