Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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■ 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.

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