Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

In the news

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■ Kevin Stitt, 48, the Republican governor of Oklahoma who hosted President Donald Trump’s June 20 rally in Tulsa, has tested positive for the coronaviru­s and is isolating at home, making him the first U.S. governor to report having the virus.

■ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 87, the oldest U.S. Supreme Court justice who was hospitaliz­ed this week after experienci­ng a fever and chills, is “home and doing well,” after treatment for a possible infection, a court spokesman said.

■ Mike Parson, Missouri’s Republican governor, has signed a bill into law that will exempt motorcycle riders who are at least 26 years old from an existing state law requiring motorcycli­sts to wear helmets.

■ Mette Frederikse­n, 42, the Danish prime minister who postponed her wedding twice because the dates conflicted with official duties, finally tied the knot with filmmaker and photograph­er Bo Tengberg, 55, at the medieval Magleby Church in southeaste­rn Denmark.

■ Marlon Campbell was fired from his job as a sheriff’s deputy in Richmond County, Ga., after Sheriff Richard Roundtree said Campbell admitted leaking “numerous” incident reports, internal documents and videos to a television news reporter.

■ Yisroel Goldstein, 58, a rabbi who had part of his hand shot off in a 2019 attack at his synagogue in Poway, Calif., pleaded guilty to federal charges for a scheme in which people made large tax-deductible contributi­ons but then secretly got their money back, except for 10% kept by Goldstein, prosecutor­s said.

■ Banksy, the acclaimed street artist, had his latest work on the subject of covid-19 and the dangers of skipping face coverings scrubbed away from inside a London subway car, even as officials urged him to put the message in a more “suitable location” for all passengers to see.

■ Kleon Papadimitr­iou, 20, a Greek student in Aberdeen, Scotland, feeling homesick nearly a month into a coronaviru­s lockdown, rode a bicycle more than 2,000 miles across five countries in a 48-day adventure to arrive home in Athens.

■ Mike Albritton, a police detective in Allenhurst, Ga., said authoritie­s are still trying to figure out whether a crime was committed after the coroner was called when a fully dressed female body, which was spotted near a section of railroad tracks, turned out to be a discarded, but anatomical­ly correct sex doll.

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