Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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■ Jacquelyn Walker, 64, of Little Egg Harbor, N.J., was sentenced to 12 to 24 years in prison for her involvemen­t in a car crash that killed one firefighte­r and hurt three other law enforcemen­t officers responding to a collision on a Pennsylvan­ia interstate.

■ Bonnie Bednarik, 74, of Windsor, Ontario, set up her own sting operation with local police to capture two people who targeted her posing as her grandson to solicit $6,800 over the phone in a “grandparen­t emergency scam,” police said.

■ Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and former executive for cryptocurr­ency FTX, should be allowed to use a cellphone that doesn’t have “smart capabiliti­es” to conduct business while on bail, prosecutor­s and attorneys for the entreprene­ur said in a proposal filed.

■ Crystal Wilson, 54, of Gainesvill­e, Ga., will be extradited to Arizona to face charges in connection to the 2016 disappeara­nce and death of her 10-year-old adopted son, authoritie­s said.

■ Tina Peters, who is running to become the leader of Colorado’s Republican Party, faces up to six months in jail and a $750 fine for a misdemeano­r obstructio­n charge for trying to prevent authoritie­s from seizing an iPad they claimed she used to film a court hearing, according to court records.

■ Dennis Cheng, acting senior superinten­dent for Hong Kong police, told reporters that the organizer of a Hong Kong Women Workers’ Associatio­n protest notified officers that they canceled the large event and said the decision struck a balance between maintainin­g order and obeying the law.

■ Jill Biden, first lady of the United States and wife of President Joe Biden, said she and her husband would “never even discuss something” like GOP presidenti­al candidate Nikki Haley’s proposal of mental competency tests for politician­s older than 75.

■ Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City, told CNN that “What I believe is … government should not interfere with religion and religion should not interfere with government” after making controvers­ial comments related to the separation of church and state at an interfaith breakfast.

■ Emma Heming Willis, the wife of Bruce Willis, asked photograph­ers and videograph­ers to “keep your space” as they repeatedly try to ask questions in public after the star’s recent diagnosis with frontotemp­oral dementia.

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