Stories from Wednesday, April 2, 2003

by David McNeal The NCAA Men's AND Women's basketball tournaments are winding down this week. I threw that big AND in there because my wife, Alice, a former college basketball player, was greatly offended on Sunday night when our local Fayetteville television station didn't even mention the women's bracket in their 10 p.m. broadcast...

The Green Forest Tigers may have gotten too ready for their baseball game with the Berryville Bobcats last Thursday and never relaxed enough to get their stroke going. The Bobcats stayed loose and took care of business in a 13-hit, 12-0 win that included three home runs, and which moved their record to 7-5 overall, 4-1 in 1AAA East play. The Tigers dropped to 2-5 overall, 2-3 in league play...

Coach Hassell Bell took a handful of Eureka Springs track athletes to a seventh-grade meet in Siloam Springs last week, with Kimberly Peek earning High Point honors. The boys' and girls' teams finished fourth overall in a field of eight teams that included Siloam Springs, Gentry, Elkins, an Oklahoma school and others...

The Eureka Springs Highlander soccer team pounded Flippin 13-0 in their first home game at the Lake Leatherwood fields last Thursday, March 27, making up for a tough 4-3 loss to Dardanelle on the road on Monday, March 24. Coaches Bill Featherstone and Mike Smith provided the following information about the games...

Week of March 24 March 24 6:25 a.m. ---- Report taken of hit-and-run vehicle incident at Hong Kong Inn. 10 a.m. ---- Report of shots fired at Glen Echo trailer park. One arrested on public intoxication and criminal mischief charges. 11:12 a.m. ---- Domestic dispute mediated on Pritchard Street...

Week of March 24 March 24 3:40 p.m. ---- Police were dispatched to a location near the Family Dollar store to work a one-vehicle traffic accident. 6:10 p.m. ---- Police were dispatched to the city ballfield to investigate a report of a dog on the loose. Police captured the pooch and turned it over to the animal control officer...

Week of March 24 March 24 9 a.m. -- Funeral procession escort requested. 10:39 a.m. -- Accident report taken after truck pulling a boat hit a rental vehicle parked on Spring St. and left scene. 12:02 p.m. -- Caller reported an illegally parked vehicle in front of hotel. Vehicle moved...

Jonathan Michael Owens, 31, of Holiday Island, died Saturday, March 29, 2003, at the Washington County Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville. Death was caused from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident on Saturday, March 23, at Holiday Island. Born in Jonesboro, he was a 1990 graduate of Jonesboro High School...

Ruth C. Blackston Hayden, 93, of Fayetteville, formerly of Green Forest, died Saturday, March 29, 2003, in Fayetteville. She was born Nov. 28, 1909, in Carroll County, daughter of Franklin D. and Ellen Bell (Sims) Alford. Mrs. Hayden was a homemaker who enjoyed gardening and quilting. She attended the Oak Grove Freewill Baptist Church...

Sybil Raye Wheaton, 91, of Harrison, died Tuesday, March 25, 2003, in Harrison. She was born March 27, 1911, in Gainesville, Mo., daughter of Nat and Clara (Freeman) Delp. Mrs. Wheaton was a homemaker. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Green Forest. She was also a member of and a volunteer at the Senior Citizen Center...

Justice of the Peace Morris Pate may have been wiser than he thought when he called for tabling a quorum court resolution calling for the state legislature to remove the requirement that accomplice testimony in criminal cases be corroborated by other testimony...

EUREKA SPRINGS ---- Youth bent on revenge made their way to the Twins Food Mart and Exxon station in Eureka Springs on Friday night to accost a 19-year-old male who was their apparent target. The victim was allegedly punched and hit with a baseball bat. In addition, an innocent bystander who happened upon the scene, 39-year-old Cathy Weaver, was also injured, although no medical transports were reported...

Charges against former Eureka Springs Mayor Beau Zar Satori were compounded during the briefest Monday criminal court proceedings in recent memory. While Satori, and his attorney, Kent Crow, did not appear in court at Eureka Springs on Monday morning, via a motion to waive appearance the former mayor pleaded innocent to a combined 86 Class D felony counts of failure to pay tax, and failure to file a return, along with 364 Class A misdemeanor charges of conducting a business without a sales tax permit.. ...

Friday was a bad day for highway accident victims in Carroll County, but it was a very good day for Rita McIntyre. Although McIntyre experienced a terrifying moment when a load of lumber smashed through the front windshield of her Dodge pickup, spearing the driver's-side seat and destroying that side of the vehicle, McIntyre escaped death for one simple reason: She is a rural mail carrier...