Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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■ Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain announced that Millicent Garrett Fawcett, who campaigned for women’s suffrage, will be the first woman honored with a statue in London’s Parliament Square, alongside the likes of Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln, as part of next year’s centenary of the first British women to get the vote.

■ Tristian Myers, 20, pleaded guilty in Nampa, Idaho, to vehicular manslaught­er for hitting and killing Leslie Nassar, an Australian humorist, with his pickup last year.

■ John Kindt said drawings of an uncomplete­d second Atlanta Cyclorama, which will go on display with the restored 150,000-squarefoot cylindrica­l painting, were nearly destroyed when his great-grandfathe­r Louis Kindt, one of the panoramas’ painters, threw them out in the rain in a fit of rage.

■ Vice Mayor Marc McGovern of Cambridge, Mass., has filed a policy order, which the City Council will consider, that urges the U.S. House to support an impeachmen­t investigat­ion into President Donald Trump, citing claims that Trump violated the Constituti­on’s emoluments clause.

■ Oscar Cantu Murguia, an executive of the Norte newspaper in Juarez, Mexico, wrote in a farewell letter in the paper that he is shutting it down because the rampant, unpunished killings of journalist­s in the country have made it too dangerous to go on.

■ Derric Cooper, 35, faces an arson charge in a fire that damaged a Colorado Springs, Colo., church, with authoritie­s saying he started a fire in an alcove to keep warm during a snowstorm.

■ Angela Anderson of Ashland, Mo., whose daughter and son drowned in 2012 after being electrocut­ed while swimming near docks in Lake of the Ozarks, is supporting a proposed state law to set safety standards and require inspection­s at boat docks.

■ Leslie McCrary is seeking the release from prison of her father, Robert Bates, who is serving a fouryear manslaught­er sentence for the April 2015 shooting death of Eric Harris, saying the former Oklahoma reserve deputy was attacked by other inmates and had to spend 23 hours a day confined, claims that a prison spokesman said are untrue.

■ Tracy Stephenson, a London police inspector, reported that an unexploded World War II-era bomb found on the River Thames just yards from the starting line of the annual Oxford-Cambridge boat race was safely removed, allowing the event to go on as planned.

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