Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

In the news

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■ Regina Romero, mayor of Tucson, Ariz., and City Council member Lane Santa Cruz are calling for the removal of Confederat­e flags from the annual Tucson Rodeo Parade, with Romero saying the emblem “has no place in the rodeo parade or elsewhere in our community.”

■ Madison L’Insalata, this year’s Miss Staten Island, was barred from the Staten Island St. Patrick’s Day Parade when she announced she was bisexual and would wear rainbow-colored clothing after parade organizers banned the New York City borough’s LGBTQ pride center from participat­ing.

■ Chuck McDougald, a police captain in Tupelo, Miss., said the suspect was hospitaliz­ed but no one else was hurt after an officer shot a man who tried to elude police by running from his vehicle and onto the grounds of the Tupelo Children’s Mansion, a group home that serves families and children.

■ Robby Ellis, a councilman in D’Iberville, Miss., and his wife, Chelse, were both arrested on misdemeano­r assault charges after an officer called to their home noted that there were “signs of domestic violence occurring on both sides,” without providing details.

■ Linda Veress, a Yellowston­e National Park spokeswoma­n, said rangers have begun capturing bison migrating outside the park, and the animals will be held in pens for possible slaughter as part of a culling program to shield Montana’s cattle industry from brucellosi­s, a disease that many bison carry.

■ Jared Wright, 21, of Lawton, Okla., arrested after he was found in a high school parking lot in Johnston, Iowa, with a 15-year-old girl who fled from home in Belmont, Miss., last week, was charged with harboring a runaway, police said.

■ Mark Casteel, 36, faces assault and other counts, accused of getting out of his car and knocking over an all-terrain vehicle at an intersecti­on near De Soto, Mo., after a road rage-fueled shouting match, then punching and stabbing a 44-yearold man, police said.

■ Brandon Fleury, 22, a Santa Ana, Calif., man who prosecutor­s said idolized mass murderers, was sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for cyberstalk­ing families of Parkland, Fla., school shooting victims.

■ Denis Tremblay of St. Michel des Saints, Quebec, crossed the finish line 35 seconds ahead of his closest competitor to win the Can-Am Crown, a 250-mile dog sled race across the wilderness of northern Maine’s Aroostook County.

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