Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

In the news

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■ Sean Moon, a church pastor in Newfoundla­nd, Pa., and son of the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon, prayed for “a kingdom of peace police and peace militia” as worshipper­s clutching AR-15 rifles drank holy wine and exchanged or renewed wedding vows in a commitment ceremony that prompted a nearby school to cancel classes for the day.

■ Ray Adams, 50, a longtime milkman whose route included a state prison in Lebanon, Ohio, was arrested and accused of smuggling contraband to inmates by hiding marijuana, tobacco and cellphones inside milk cartons, prosecutor­s said.

■ Stuart Albright, a judge in Forsyth County, N.C., sent several prospectiv­e jurors home and postponed trials after the county print shop made a mistake and failed to send out notices to about 1,700 people selected for the jury pool needed to hear cases.

■ Catherine Martin, spokesman for a high school in Santee, Calif., said a 14-year-old ninth-grader was arrested on accusation­s of making terroristi­c threats after he reportedly posted a photo of a Lego rifle on social media with a menacing message.

■ James Krey, 40, a former police officer in Davie, Fla., convicted of extortion for threatenin­g to send nude photos and a sex video of a former girlfriend to their Police Department colleagues, was sentenced to 30 days in jail.

■ Dana McCool said she’s engaging in “peaceful protest” over large variations in her water bill by paying a $493 bill with more than 49,000 pennies, which took water department employees in Deltona, Fla., more than two hours to count.

■ Marwan Al Ebadim, 28, and Salma Hourieh, 29, ran when police arrived at a gas station in Peoria, Ariz., to investigat­e a shopliftin­g complaint only to be caught and arrested when they jumped a fence and landed in the secure parking lot used by a city police station.

■ Jamie Holt, a Mississipp­i wildlife biologist, said a black bear attacked a woman’s car in Sontag, a community south of Jackson, leaving tooth and claw marks as well as damaging a headlight and the front license tag, even though there was no food in the vehicle.

■ Mordechai Persoff, a rabbi with the Mikdash Educationa­l Center in Jerusalem, said the center minted 1,000 biblical half-shekel coins bearing President Donald Trump’s image to recognize Trump’s “big declaratio­n that Jerusalem is the capital of the holy people.”

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