Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

In the news

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■ Cody Wheeler, a commander with the U.S. Forest Service in Northern California, said Ice, a highly decorated police dog with the Forest Service, is expected to recover after he was stabbed nine times during a marijuana raid in Klamath National Forest.

■ Ander Christense­n, the son of a Lincoln, Neb., City Council member, made a satirical speech before the council calling for a ban on boneless chicken wings, arguing that the meat doesn’t come from a chicken’s wing, but from its breast, and “we’ve been living a lie.”

■ Michaelo Moore, 45, of Stone Mountain, Ga., was sentenced to one year and nine months in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to stealing checks from the mail in the Florida panhandle as the area was recovering from Hurricane Michael.

■ Josef Koeberl, an Austrian, beat his own record for the longest full-body contact with ice cubes when he managed to stay 2 hours, 30 minutes and 57 seconds in a custom-made glass box filled with more than 440 pounds of ice.

■ Martin Bauer , a spokesman for the animal welfare group Four Paws, said Kaavan, the lone elephant in the now-closed Marghazar Zoo in Islamabad, has been given medical approval to be relocated to a wildlife sanctuary, likely in Cambodia.

■ Kristen Dark , a spokeswoma­n for the Travis County, Texas, sheriff’s office, said there were no injuries or deaths and officers are investigat­ing after several boats sank Saturday during a parade in support of President Donald Trump at Lake Travis, near Austin.

■ Amy Priest, 44, a teacher’s assistant at a high school in Eufaula, Ala., is facing charges after being accused of having sex with a student under age 19 off-campus, and the school district said she was immediatel­y removed from the school and placed on administra­tive leave.

■ Marc Victoriano, 46, a contractor from Covington, La., pleaded guilty to a theft charge for collecting more than $200,000 from the Terrebonne Parish School District after providing fraudulent air-monitoring and asbestos-testing reports to the school system, according the U.S. attorney’s office.

■ Michael Stanfield, the mayor of LaFollette, Tenn., was arrested on charges, including official misconduct, after state investigat­ors said he used city employees and city equipment to work on private property, some of which he owned, and told a city employee to lie about it to auditors.

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