Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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■ Tawainna Anderson filed a wrongful death suit against TikTok, the social network she claims targeted her 10-year-old daughter with a game that encourages participants to see how long they can hold their breath, which she says contributed to her child’s death.
■ Jacinda Ardern , prime minster of New Zealand, posted a photo of her positive covid-19 test result in an Instagram post announcing her infection and wrote, “To anyone else out there, isolating or dealing with COVID, I hope you take good care of yourselves.”
■ Mekhi Speed , the 18-year-old cousin of Amir Locke, pleaded guilty to a murder count in a case that led police to the Minneapolis apartment where a SWAT team officer fatally shot Locke while conducting a no-knock search warrant.
■ N.P. Narvekar , chief executive officer of Harvard Management Co., the entity that runs the university’s endowment, received about $1 million in base salary and had about another $5.2 million in deferred compensation, the institution reported.
■ Donmonick Martin , 30, of Chalmette, La., was ordered to pay nearly $13,500 in restitution, spend two months of house arrest and three years on probation for his role in a $300,000 lost baggage scam in which he and two others “submitted over 180 false claims to commercial airlines,” federal prosecutors said.
■ Ariel Robinson , 30, of Simpsonville, S.C., the season 20 winner of Food Network’s “Worst Cooks in America,” was found guilty in the beating death last year of a 3-year-old foster child in her care and was sentenced to life in prison.
■ Nick Mosby , Baltimore City Council president and husband of state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby, was ordered by the city’s Board of Ethics to stop accepting money from a legal defense fund that took donations from at least two city contractors and it ruled he violated an ethics ordinance.
■ Rene Trigueros-Hernandez , pastor of a Pentecostal church in San Jose, Calif., was arrested on child abuse charges in connection with his 3-year-old granddaughter’s death during a two-hour exorcism he performed to “liberate her of her evil spirits.”
■ Lt. Col. Marnee Losurdo , who serves at the Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss., said members of the Hurricane Hunters were disciplined for making an unauthorized stop in an aircraft to pick up a crew member’s BMW motorcycle in Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.