Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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■ Didi Fritts of Seattle exclaimed “My baby. My baby,” when a firefighte­r emerged from the wreckage of her home carrying Sammy, her black Labrador, who was alert and wagging her tail after being trapped for seven days in a house that had collapsed in a landslide.

■ Tim Gionet , a far-right social media personalit­y who calls himself “Baked Alaska,” who is facing unrelated charges in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced to 30 days in jail after being convicted of pepper-spraying a worker at a bar in Scottsdale, Ariz.

■ Magdalena Andersson , the prime minister of Sweden, and at least two other of the country’s top politician­s are in isolation and working from home after testing positive for covid-19 after taking part in a debate in Parliament.

■ Corey Johnson , 21, a Florida man convicted of killing a 13-year-old friend during a sleepover five years ago, apologized and denounced a militant Islamic group that affected his thinking, but was sentenced to life in prison by a judge who rejected a lesser 40-year sentence, saying Johnson’s willingnes­s to kill for radical views make him unlikely to ever be rehabilita­ted.

■ Dave Tiefenbrun­n , a St. Charles County, Mo., police captain, said Paul Hepperman, a 75-year-old farmer, died after he fell into a grain bin as he tried to unclog it and became trapped inside in an accident on his farm near Wentzville.

■ William Ray Norris , the former Clarke County, Ala., sheriff who resigned last May during an impeachmen­t investigat­ion, was indicted on campaign finance, tax evasion and ethics charges, including using his office for personal gain.

■ Thomas Holifield , 59, of Michigan City, Ind., accused of killing his roommate by repeatedly spiking her beverages with windshield washer fluid because he felt she was disrespect­ing him by not approving of his heavy drinking, was charged with murder.

■ Kevin Richardson , 59, a former New Orleans building inspector who pleaded guilty to accepting at least $65,000 in bribes in return for not enforcing building codes, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison.

■ Michael Kretschmer , the governor of Germany’s Saxony state, thanked a group of medical students, saying they had made a “clear and important statement” by holding a silent vigil outside a hospital in Dresden to protest against a rally by far-right coronaviru­s vaccine skeptics.

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