IN THE NEWS » Boy, 3, suffers burns in suspected acid attack; waiter fired after derogatory term used on bill; astronaut in space joins Kraftwerk for live duet

• Robert Arnold, a former Rutherford County, Tenn., sheriff who was sentenced to four years in prison for illegally profiting from the sale of electronic cigarettes to inmates, sent a letter to President Donald Trump to seek a pardon, calling himself a political prisoner who never took tax dollars for his business.

• Mark Travis, chief of England's West Mercia police, said officers were working to identify the substance that caused severe burns on the face and arm of a 3-year-old boy at a discount store in Worcester in what authorities suspect was an acid attack.

• Shandrick Richardson, 17, was arrested in Tulsa on a first-degree murder charge, accused of fatally stabbing an 18-year-old during a street fight that involved at least 10 people, police said.

• Moira De Luca, owner of a restaurant in Rome, said she fired a waiter who used a derogatory term on the bill he gave to a gay couple after their dinner, adding she plans to seek damages from the former employee for tarnishing the eatery's reputation.

• Alexander Gerst, a German astronaut on the International Space Station, used a tablet computer with a virtual synthesizer to join the electronic music band Kraftwerk in a live duet of its 1978 song "Spacelab" during the band's performance in Stuttgart.

• Kyle Rufus Childers, 25, faces animal cruelty charges after authorities said he broke the neck of a dog that was bothering him at a Parker County, Texas, trailer park, then threw the animal into a trash container.

• Michael Groover, 62, the husband of celebrity chef Paula Deen, won the Hemingway Look-Alike Contest after eight previous tries, topping 150 other entrants at an event held in Key West, Fla., where the author Ernest Hemingway lived and wrote during the 1930s.

• David Killen, a New York City art dealer, bought the contents of a New Jersey storage locker filled with paintings for $15,000 but said he got more than he bargained for when he found several believed to have been created by artist Willem de Kooning, whose works have sold for millions of dollars at auction.

• Rodney Muterspaw, the police chief in Middletown, Ohio, said he's "overwhelmed" by the response after his department's entry in a national lip sync challenge among police agencies drew rave reviews, including from the country music group Lady Antebellum, whose song "Need You Now" was featured in the video.

A Section on 07/23/2018

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