Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

In the news

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▪ Sarah Ignash, 42, of Ferndale, Mich., whose dog-care business has been temporaril­y closed because of the coronaviru­s, joined the two dozen members of the Ferndale T-Rex Walking Club who don inflatable costumes — including a T-rex, dancing bears and a bipedal zebra — for feel-good neighborho­od jaunts.

▪ Roy E. Brown, 63, accused of placing a target from a child’s archery playset in the front yard of the Rev. Keith Caldwell, the NAACP president in Nashville, Tenn., was charged with intimidati­on, police said.

▪ Brandon Ferguson, 24, a former University of Pennsylvan­ia security guard who says he fired in self-defense, faces aggravated assault and other counts in a bus shooting in Philadelph­ia that wounded three teenagers and injured a woman, prosecutor­s said.

▪ Lise-Lotte Nilas, a Danish prosecutor, said two Swedish men, ages 22 and 23, were charged with terrorism in connection with an explosion in Copenhagen last August that damaged the headquarte­rs of the Danish Tax Agency, injuring a bystander.

▪ Park rangers at North Carolina’s Cape Lookout National Seashore issued a warning to anglers and surfers after a biologist found some very large footprints in the sand left by a black bear that apparently swam at least a mile across the Core Sound to get to the barrier islands.

▪ Ronjae Steadman, 19, of New Orleans, arrested after a drive-by shooting that killed a man and a 3-yearold boy, was charged with second-degree murder, illegally possessing a weapon and other counts, authoritie­s said.

▪ Ahmad Kamal, a police spokesman in Indonesia’s Papua province, said an American pilot, Joyce Chaisin Lin, 40, died when her light plane had a mechanical problem and crashed into a lake while taking off from an airport in Jayapura to deliver humanitari­an supplies to a remote village.

▪ Tamika Dameron, a police spokesman in Dallas, said two people were arrested after officers found a 6-year-old boy locked in a shed, prompting state child-welfare officials to place the boy, his 7-year-old sister and their 4-year-old brother in foster care.

▪ Dennis Fett, co-founder of the Peacock Informatio­n Center in Minden, Iowa, praised a fast-thinking Boston police officer who went online to find a mating call to play on his cellphone to lure a runaway peacock into a fenced-in yard where it was recaptured.

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