Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

In the news

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■ Terry Morrison, commander of the HMAS Canberra, diverted the Australian military ship to a tiny Pacific island in Micronesia to rescue three men marooned after they sailed offcourse and ran out of fuel and whose SOS message in the sand was spotted from a passing aircraft.

■ David Lacey, 66, the husband of Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey, faces three misdemeano­r assault counts, accused of pointing a gun at Black Lives Matter protesters who demonstrat­ed outside the couple’s home before dawn in March.

■ Zeke Miller, president of the White House Correspond­ents’ Associatio­n, said an unidentifi­ed reporter who covered President Donald Trump’s trip to Florida on Friday, including gatherings with state and local officials, has tested positive for the coronaviru­s.

■ Augustin, who provided only his first name, was shown on security video being beaten by four people with baseball bats after he asked a fellow customer at a coin-operated laundry north of Paris to put on a mask, which is required in all indoor public places in France.

■ Devonte Hammonds, 27, of Birmingham, Ala., accused of using another person’s identity to steal from a memorial fund created to help the family of a Huntsville police officer who was killed last year, was charged with multiple fraud counts, prosecutor­s said.

■ Prince Joachim, 51, the younger son of Queen Margrethe of Denmark, has been discharged from a hospital after undergoing emergency surgery last month for a blood clot in his brain and is now staying at his mother’s private residence in southweste­rn France.

■ Ahmed Aden, 40, who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and armed criminal action for intentiona­lly running over a 15-year-old Somali student outside a Kansas City, Mo., mosque in 2014, was sentenced to 40 years in prison.

■ Robert Diienno, 32, a Laurel, Md., man who pleaded guilty to federal prostituti­on charges, kept detailed “meeting minutes,” a self-described “training manual” and a “comptrolle­r’s report” that allowed investigat­ors to document his business, according to court records.

■ Feeonaa Clifton, 48, and her husband, Neville, 59, both of Auckland, New Zealand, who were stranded during their honeymoon on the remote Falkland Islands because of the pandemic, returned home by hitching a monthlong ride of more than 5,000 miles on an Antarctic fishing boat.

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