Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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■ Janet Yellen , Treasury Department secretary, said federal financial analysts aren’t seeing “broad-based weakness in the economy” and she expects the Federal Reserve will be successful in “putting in place policies that will bring inflation down.”

■ David Jakubonis ,a 43-year-old Iraq War veteran accused of attacking New York Republican gubernator­ial candidate Lee Zeldin, told federal investigat­ors he “did not know who the speaker was” during a Veterans of Foreign Wars event in Perinton, N.Y., according to a criminal complaint.

■ Kareem House said he was attending a funeral service for his cousin, an anti-violence activist, when a drive-by shooter wounded three men who were taking a picture outside a Chicago church.

■ Bryant Tejeda- Castillo , an active-duty Marine who was stationed on the island of Oahu, was being held in lieu of $1 million bond on a second-degree murder charge in the stabbing death of his wife that several people saw along a freeway, the Honolulu Police Department said.

■ Brian Kemp , Republican governor of Georgia, wrote on Twitter that a U.S. marshal shot during the arrest of a murder suspect at a mobile home park in a Peachtree City, Ga., is doing well and expected to make a full recovery.

■ Eugene “Doc” Bishop , a World War II veteran born and raised in Bishopvill­e, S.C., arrived at his 100th birthday party in a Porsche and celebrated surrounded by dozens of family members and friends at a ballroom in Hillcrest Heights, Md.

■ Barry Morphew of Colorado avoided jail time and was fined $ 600 in a plea agreement on a forgery charge for casting his missing wife’s 2020 ballot for former President Donald Trump, who lost the state to President Joe Biden by 14 percentage points.

■ Lachlan Cartwright , Daily Beast reporter and editor-at-large, plans to sue New York City and several police officers and claims he was wrongly arrested on an accusation of trespassin­g because the Police Department’s press office was unhappy with his coverage of racial justice protests, a document states.

■ Dan Patrick , Republican lieutenant governor of Texas, is isolating and working from home with “mild symptoms” after testing positive for covid-19, months after the 72-yearold experience­d another mild case, according to a news release by his campaign.

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