Stories from Friday, August 21, 2009

EUREKA SPRINGS -- A 30-year-old Eureka Springs firefighter, medic and reserve police officer, Cody Crews Harp, has been arrested for conspiracy to commit murder for trying to hire a hit man to kill his wife, police say. The Eureka Springs High School graduate, who is well known in the community, reportedly passed money and information about his wife to an undercover FBI agent in the parking lot of a Eureka Springs lodging facility Tuesday evening...

HOLIDAY ISLAND -- Long unhappy with Carroll County's track record of road improvements in Holiday Island, the Holiday Island Board of Commissioners drafted a resolution at its Aug. 17 work session to challenge the county to commit its fair share of state turnback funds to the planned community...

Colonel Winford E. Phillips, director of the Arkansas State Police and the governor's highway safety representative, has announced the Arkansas Highway Safety Office's latest statewide drunk driving prevention enforcement effort. The crackdown coincides with the national initiative called "Drunk Driving. Over the Limit. Under Arrest," which runs Aug. 21 through Sept. 7 for the Labor Day holiday...

BLUE EYE, Mo. -- Casey Parton and her trusty steed "Old Paint" work together as a team to teach youngsters and adults how to ride. Both have plenty of experience. She has ridden and trained horses all her life, and Paint has been a big part of that life...

LITTLE ROCK -- Recent reports of feral hogs in Carroll County have raised questions as to how to deal with them. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC) has released the following information and guidelines for dealing with the destructive hogs...

In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. John 14:2 Cherlyn Valerie Hill entered her mansion, perfectly healed, on August 18, 2009, at the age of 61 years. She was born in Siloam Springs, Arkansas on August 2, 1948...

Edward Jones, a resident of Springdale, AR, formerly of Dry Fork/Liberty community, was born January 10, 1922 in Dry Fork, Arkansas, a son of Edgar and Ella (Smith) Jones. He departed this life Tuesday, August 18, 2009 in Springdale, AR at the age of 87...

Norma Jean Smith, of Holiday Island, was born September 18, 1938, at Mexico, MO, the daughter of Gilbert Washington and Iris Delilah (Ellis) Wright. She died August 13, 2009, at her home, at the age of 71. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Louis D. Smith, her parents, three brothers and tw sisters...

Robert Earle Tirey, a resident of Berryville, AR, was born on January 27, 1934 near Grandview, rural Carroll County, Arkansas the son of Joseph Jackson and Elsie Leita (Champlin) Tirey. He departed this life at the age of 75 years on July 30, 2009 in Berryville, AR...

Victoria Rene Cooley, age 51, departed this earthly life on August 13, 2009 after a battle with cancer. She was born February 24, 1958 in Salem, Oregon. She is survived by her mother, Cora Hoffman; daughter, Sarah Cooley-Gazzell; one sister, Lucinda Cooley; and her step-father, Robert J. Sunderman of  Austin, Arkansas...

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