Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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■ Diana Giraldo, a Frontier Airlines flight attendant, helped a female passenger to the restroom and aided in the birth of the woman’s baby during a flight from Denver Internatio­nal Airport on the way to Orlando, the company announced on Facebook.

■ Tatanina Kelly, 28, of Chicago, was charged with three counts of misdemeano­r child endangerme­nt after a firearm in her second grader’s backpack accidental­ly discharged at Walt Disney Magnet School, injuring a 7-year-old classmate, police said.

■ Eric Clapton, a 77-yearold rock musician who released the anti-lockdown song titled “Stand and Deliver,” has tested positive for covid-19 and canceled two upcoming performanc­es in Zurich and Milan, he announced on his Facebook page and official website.

■ John Fetterman, Pennsylvan­ia’s lieutenant governor and Democratic nominee for the U. S. Senate, missed his election night party in Pittsburgh because he underwent surgery to implant a pacemaker with a defibrilla­tor and is under observatio­n after a stroke, officials say.

■ Joel Greenberg, former Seminole County, Fla., tax collector and associate of Rep. Matt Gaetz, R- Fla., should be sentenced in August for federal crimes, including sex traffickin­g of a child, identity theft, stalking and wire fraud, “absent compelling circumstan­ces,” U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell said.

■ Martin Shkreli, the former pharmaceut­ical executive known for raising drug prices of an AIDS drug by 5,000%, has been released early from a low-security federal prison in Allenwood, Pa., and transferre­d to a halfway house.

■ Jose Beltran, a 28-yearold rapper who performs as Valtonyc, will not be extradited to Spain, where he has been sentenced to prison for writing lyrics that praise terror groups and insult the royal family, a Belgian court ruled.

■ Corrine Brown, former U.S. congresswo­man who represente­d the Jacksonvil­le, Fla., area, faces up to three years in prison after pleading guilty to federal parlance, or “interferen­ce with the due administra­tion of the Internal Revenue Service laws,” court documents show.

■ Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., apologized after being booed and heckled for saying “scientific truths such as the existence of two sexes, male and female, are subject to challenge these days” during a graduation speech at the University of Wyoming in Laramie.

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