Stories from Tuesday, November 14, 2006

CARROLL COUNTY -- Election results were certified Monday morning, shortly after Election Commission Chairman Levi Phillips responded hotly to challenges made during the ballot-counting process. Phillips addressed the issues pertaining to the North Yocum and Holiday Island precincts, where poll watchers questioned discrepancies in the number of signatures versus the number of ballots provided...

LITTLE ROCK -- A hearing date of Nov. 28 has been set in the appeal of Berryville attorney Cindy Baker in her civil case against the Carroll County Election Commission. Baker is seeking to either overturn the May Democratic primary in which figures showed she lost the nomination for prosecuting attorney to incumbent Tony Rogers, or to redo the election entirely...

BERRYVILLE -- Mayor Tim McKinney is expected to publically "ride the ramp" this Friday during the official dedication of the Berryville Skate Park. According to McKinney, he doesn't know yet if he'll be standing or sitting on a skateboard when it comes time to ride the ramp. "It's undetermined," he said. "I just do what I'm told."...

ROBERTA CARLENE TRUAN, 64, of Brownwood, Texas, died on Nov. 9, 2006, following a long battle with cancer. Carlene was born August 23, 1943, in Eureka Springs, the oldest of seven children. She lived the first half of her life in Arkansas before moving with her husband to Texas. She was a talented artist who enjoyed painting the cactus and bluebonnets of the Texas Hill Country. Her paintings were sold through the Buchanon Dam Artist Guild Gallery. She was a long time associate with Wal-Mart...

FLIPPIN -- They're the champs -- finally! The Berryville senior girls won their first tournament since the ninth grade last Saturday with a 47-27 victory over Mountain View in the finals of the Flippin Arvest Tournament. They defeated Bruno-Pyatt 47-33, Omaha 62-29, and Mountain View on Saturday to earn the trophy and put a two-year series of second-place finishes behind them...

GREEN FOREST -- The unlikely season of the Green Forest Tigers came to a close last Friday night at home when the Yellville-Summit Panthers ended the Red Tiger season with a 35-7 first round Class 3A playoff victory. The Panthers will move on to the second round of the playoffs and will face the Curly Wolves of Prescott...

by David McNeal This was a wild and wacky weekend, but a great one if you were a sports fan. All the college football teams we don't like got beat while the Razorbacks were demolishing that nasty-colored orange team, Tennessee, 31-14. On Monday, sure enough, the pollsters almost got it right on the rankings. Arkansas was No. 5 in the Associated Press poll, No. 6 in the USA Today coaches' poll, and No. 7 in the BCS standings...