Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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■ Mike Palinkas, an Ashtabula, Ohio, police lieutenant, says two women, one of whom had been in a livein relationsh­ip with a recently deceased 80-year-old man, are facing charges after they propped up his body in the passenger seat of a car in order to withdraw money in his bank’s drive-thru lane.

■ Jeronimo Yanez, a former St. Anthony, Minn., police officer acquitted of manslaught­er in the fatal shooting of motorist Philando Castile, saw a state court uphold the rejection for his substitute teaching license on moral grounds.

■ Reuben Ramirez, an assistant Dallas police chief, has issued written reprimands for four officers caught on video mocking disabled veteran DyNell Lane after he urinated on himself when they denied him use of a restaurant’s restroom.

■ Monica Sibri, a migrant advocate, says many recently arrived parents with whom she speaks with don’t trust the system amid growing complaints from New York residents about children selling candy in the subway during school hours.

■ Bjørn Gulden, Adidas’ CEO, says the shoe-maker is donating more than $150 million to groups fighting antisemiti­sm and other forms of hate from the sales of Yeezy shoes that piled up after it severed ties with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.

■ Philip Alexander says he’s grateful to know so many people were inspired by his brother Paul, a Dallas polio patient, lawyer and author who recently died at 78 and was one the nation’s last iron-lung users.

■ Carly Lennic, a Georgia teenager who says she’s hoping to get more women interested in the outdoors, is following the progress of a bill she helped write that would allow hunters to substitute fluorescen­t pink for the neon orange safety gear.

■ Holden Minor Ringer, a recent Emory University student, said he had this dream, but didn’t imagine it could have happened as he set foot in Washington, D.C., finishing his yearlong walk from Washington state, in part to raise funds for America Walks, an organizati­on that supports walkable cities.

■ Lisa Fernandez , a Stansbury Park, Utah, feed store employee, says she has checked a box on her bucket list after she and about 40 other volunteers milked 50 udder-swollen goats from a trailer that’d gotten snowbound on its way to California.

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