Stories from Thursday, December 1, 2005

BERRYVILLE -- It's a little-known function of the county prosecutor's office, but Carroll County's Victim-Witness Coordinator Robin Arnold is well aware of the impact of crime on the health and well-being of victims. In a report for the month of October from the Arkansas Crime Victims Reparations Board, Carroll County ranks 12th among the state's 75 counties for the amount of money paid to crime victims. ...

EUREKA SPRINGS -- The Eureka Springs Lady Highlander basketball team went 2-1 at the Blue Eye, Mo., Invitational Tournament and won the consolation championship last Saturday when they defeated Spokane, Mo., 61-51. "I was extremely proud of the girls," Coach Aaron Hall said. "Our only loss was to Cassville, and they went to the finals of the winners bracket."...

November 21 6:30 p.m. -- Police were dispatched to 306 9th St. to deliver a message. November 23 2:11 a.m. -- Police were dispatched to take a vandalism report on Tanner's truck being shot. Photographs were taken. 5:28 p.m. -- Police were dispatched to an accident in the parking lot of the Dollar General Store...

Nov. 21 9:00 a.m. -- Officer was dispatched to McDonald's to take a report on theft of a coat. 11:08 a.m. -- Officer was dispatched to Sonic Drive-In concerning a grease tub knocked over. There was no damage, the grease was cleaned up and all was okay...

POLICE DISPATCHES November 22 8:49 a.m.-- Caller reported a dog running loose on White St. Officer advised it belonged to resident on Singleton St and was in the pack that had attacked a resident recently. 12:45 p.m.-- Incident report taken on subject that had sugar poured in gas tank...

W.D. PRITCHARD, 69, died Friday, Nov. 18, 2005, at his home in West Branch, Mich., where he had lived since moving from Mulberry, Fla. He served in the military from January, 1958, to January, 1978, completed three tours of duty in Germany, was in charge of the motor pool during the Kennedy era, and was a flight control instructor in Vietnam from 1969 to 1970, earning a Bronze Star, Purple Heart and the Air Medal...

MRS. AMANDA M. WRIGHT, 98, of Rantoul, Ill., a former Grandview resident, died Sunday, Nov. 27, 2005, at the Illinois Knights Templar Home, Paxton, Ill., where she had resided one and a half years. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 1, 2005, at the Grandview Southern Baptist Church with Rev. ...

EUREKA SPRINGS -- A perverse Christmas tradition was foiled late Saturday as Eureka Springs resident Virginia Voiers was cited for misdemeanor theft of property. According to Eureka Springs police, a dispatcher observed Voiers taking a Baby Jesus figure from the near-life-sized nativity in the band shell at Basin Park, by way of a recently installed wireless monitor...

HOLIDAY ISLAND -- If you own a lot in Unit 2 in Holiday Island and have been thinking about putting a mobile home on it, it's too late: the unit has gone through a covenant change that bans bringing in any more mobile homes. A mobile home is defined as a "moveable or portable unit for residential purposes constructed to be towed on its own chassis and designed to be installed with or without a permanent foundation for human occupancy as a residence."...

The ball hung in the air, poised over the basketball goal, ready to drop or bounce as the not-well-conditioned athletes underneath jockeyed for position with grunts, groans and comments unfit for family consumption. The ball bounced, as so many before had, and a mad scramble was on...