Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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■ Raphaela Mueller, a Minnesota woman, said she felt “nauseated and I wanted to cry, which I ended up doing” when she first saw a couple in a Marshall, Minn., Walmart wearing red masks emblazoned with swastikas, of which Mueller later posted a video on Facebook.

■ Dale Engle, the former police chief of Davie, Fla., accused of saying a Broward County sheriff’s deputy died of covid-19 because of his “homosexual lifestyle,” announced he is retiring after a three-month investigat­ion into his conduct during which he was placed on administra­tive leave.

■ L’Jean McKneely,a Baton Rouge police spokesman, said “the sad thing is nobody stayed on the scene” after the deaths of two men shot in neighborho­od gunfire where a group was filming a rap video. m Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, Kuwait’s 91-year-old ruling emir, landed in Rochester, Minn., after being flown across the world in a U.S. Air Force C-17 flying hospital for medical treatment days after undergoing an unspecifie­d surgery in Kuwait.

■ Eric Breemen, a Colorado man who is facing attempted murder and other charges in the vehicular assault of Lakhwant Singh, the Sikh owner of a Lakewood, Colo., liquor store, is now facing a hate crime charge as well, according to prosecutor­s.

■ Nicolas Zepeda ,a 29-year-old Chilean man, was ordered jailed in Besancon, France, after he was extradited from his home nation pending an investigat­ion by French authoritie­s into the disappeara­nce four years ago of Zepeda’s ex-girlfriend, a Japanese student, who had been studying in Besancon.

■ Jaron Lemmitt, 18, faces second-degree murder and other charges in the fatal shooting of Jaquan Steed and the wounding of another man during a dispute between two groups at the St. Louis Galleria in Richmond Heights, Mo., according to police documents.

■ Billy Kruger , a French-American man from Brooklyn, was in custody in Toulouse, France, after the death of his wife, Laure Bardina-Kruger, whose body was found with stab wounds in a storm drain in Peyriac-de-Mer, where the couple had been vacationin­g.

■ Trenell Aisola, a former substitute teacher in Poydras, La., was sentenced to a year of probation after she pleaded guilty to simple battery and disturbing the peace charges for roughing up two boys while she was working at a middle school, according to officials.

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