Stories from Wednesday, February 25, 2004

Carroll County's 911/Central Dispatch committee was directed by the Quorum Court Thursday night to investigate alternatives to see if the county can utilize new and unused dispatching equipment housed in the upper level of the county courthouse in Berryville...

The source of noxious fumes that overcame four South Carroll County firefighters at a structure fire last Tuesday is under investigation. The fire was reported at 1:55 p.m. Feb. 17 at a home owned by the Phillips family, and rented to a female tenant, located on County Road 929, at Lake Return in south Carroll County near the Osage community...

Hearings in the aggravated robbery and capital murder case against Cory Lynn Howerton, 24, of Berryville, in the burning death of Darrell Heaster, were continued Friday in circuit court action in Eureka Springs. During a suppression hearing, law enforcement officers testified regarding a late August 2003, traffic stop on Howerton near the Maple community...

An Alpena man arrested for alleged DWI 4 on Valentine's Day was charged with DWI 5 the following day ---- just hours after his release from jail. James Kelly Thomas, 45, of Richardson Road, was booked into the Carroll County Jail by Green Forest Officer Shannon Hill on Feb. 14 after Hill initiated a traffic stop because of an expired vehicle license plate...