Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

In the news

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■ Misael Gonzalez, a motorcycle enthusiast who goes by the name of “King Charlie,” said Puerto Rican police unfairly harassed people during a street rally by issuing a record 1,749 tickets for infraction­s that included speeding, illegal cellphone use and, for some in cars, not wearing a seat belt.

■ Kwek Yu Xuan, who weighed just 7.5 ounces — the same as a large apple or grapefruit — when she was born 13 months ago at a Singapore hospital, finally got to go home with her mom, Wong Mei Ling, now that she’s up to nearly 14 pounds.

■ Ronnie Williams, the fleet manager at a U.S. Marine Corps logistics base in Albany, Ga., said two charging stations are being installed so it can begin using electric pickups and plug-in hybrid vehicles as they become available.

■ Yordi Barthelemy, 23, of Kerens, Texas, accused in the fatal shooting of three Houston-area women, ages 46, 47 and 65, at a condominiu­m in South Padre Island, was charged with capital murder, police said.

■ Michael Mayfield, an alderman in Vicksburg, Miss., said it’s time for the city to “up the ante” and take property owners to court if they don’t start repairing dilapidate­d buildings or keeping their yards clean and mowed.

■ Thomas Gossen,a Louisiana state trooper, said “There’s no way to know who shot who” in a shootout eventually involving a police officer working security at a Lafayette nightclub that broke out in the club’s parking lot and left one man dead and a woman wounded.

■ Gregory Livingston, a security guard at a Memphis grocery store, faces a second-degree murder charge after being accused of shooting an unarmed man in the store’s parking lot during an argument about loud music coming from the victim’s car, police said.

■ Alex Ewing, 60, a former Nevada prison inmate tied by DNA testing to the long-unsolved 1984 hammer and knife slayings of three family members, including a 7-year-old girl, in Aurora, Colo., was convicted of first-degree murder, authoritie­s said.

■ Anthony Dorsey, 31, accused of killing an Illinois man in a 2019 crash that occurred when he drove the wrong way on an interstate in Bonner Springs, Kan., as police pursued him over a potential registrati­on violation, faces up to 49 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder, prosecutor­s said.

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