Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
In the news
■ John Pistole , the administrator of the Transportation Security Administration who put in place enhanced pat-downs and full body scans at airports, is stepping down to take a job in academia, the agency said.
■ Alison Michelle Ernst , 36, a Phoenix woman accused of throwing a shoe at Hillary Rodham Clinton in Las Vegas on April 10, was ordered by a federal judge to live with her mother in Arizona while she awaits sentencing for trespassing.
■ Doris Berryhill Parks , an Ilwaco, Wash., woman on trial for feeding bears in her neighborhood, has agreed to stop and to pay a $500 fine to settle the case.
■ Monica Pompeo ,a former University of New Mexico student, can proceed with a free- speech lawsuit against the school alleging she was ostracized by her professors for making critical comments about homosexuals in a paper, a federal judge ruled.
■ Lacorrion Detron Turner , a Louisiana 18-year-old who police say put on a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles mask and used a stick wrapped in plastic to rob a Lafayette convenience store, failing to open the register but taking two wallets, was arrested and charged with first-degree robbery.
■ Austin Flake , a son of U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and the junior Flake’s wife and in-laws were indicted on cruelty-to-animal charges after 21 dogs died at a Gilbert, Ariz., kennel in June, prosecutors said.
■ The Rev. Juan McFarland , 47, who confessed to having sex with church members and neglecting to tell them he had AIDS, was temporarily banned from acting as pastor of Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala.
■ Carl Meade , whose former employer, Cineworld in Dublin, fired him in 2012, claiming he consumed a pricier hot dog and candy than he’d paid for during a work-time snack, is due to receive the equivalent of about $25,000 after a favorable ruling by Ireland’s employment appeals court.
■ Isidoros Doyiakos ,a Greek prosecutor handling the criminal investigation of the Nazi-inspired, far-right Golden Dawn party, sought to have 70 party members stand trial on charges ranging from running a criminal organization to murder and weapons offenses.
■ Zainab al-Khawaja , a Bahraini activist who is eight months pregnant, was detained for “insulting” King Hamad after she tore up his photograph in court, the organization Human Rights Watch said.