Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

In the news

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◼ Colton Michael of Lawson, Mo., said the former owners of his house couldn’t believe it when he called to tell them that their dog, Cleo, had shown up on Michael’s front porch, about 50 miles away from her owners’ new home in Olathe, Kan.

◼ Juan Martinez, a former Arizona prosecutor known for winning a conviction in the Jodi Arias murder case, agreed to be disbarred in an ethics case in which the State Bar of Arizona accused him of leaking the identity of an Arias juror and sexually harassing female law clerks in his office.

◼ Jacquaviou­s Greathouse, 29, of Auburn, Ala., was sentenced to 90 years in prison in the deaths of 27-year-old Sedric Lewis and 31-year-old Derris Harris, who were inside a house that was peppered with multiple gunshots from a rifle and a pistol.

◼ Nina Bussek, a spokeswoma­n for prosecutor­s in Vienna, said an investigat­ion is underway, and police officials said eight officers have been suspended after a video surfaced that appeared to show police beating a Chechen man in the Austrian capital last year.

◼ Sharon Morrow, a homeless advocate in St. Louis, is being represente­d by the American Civil Liberties Union in a federal lawsuit accusing two St. Louis police officers of slamming Morrow to the ground and arresting her because she recorded others being arrested.

◼ Jean Camacho-Morales, a correction­s officer in Bexar County, Texas, was fired and faces counts of official oppression, tampering with government records and aggravated assault, after authoritie­s said he stood by while six inmates beat another and allowed the assailants to clean up before he called for help.

◼ Kerwin Pittman, a coordinato­r with Emancipate North Carolina, said “it only made sense” that the group and other organizers should pay for a sign reading “Black Lives Matter” on a billboard next to a Confederat­e flag outside the town of Pittsboro.

◼ David Sidoo, a Vancouver businessma­n and former Canadian Football League player, told a U.S. judge he was “deeply ashamed” during a hearing in which he was sentenced to three months in prison for hiring someone to take the SAT in place of his two sons.

◼ Chance Harrison, 32, of South Riding, Va., was arrested and charged in the stabbing of two men, including a pastor, and injuring the Fairfax County police chief during a Bible study class at a church in Chantilly, according to police.

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