Stories from Saturday, December 3, 2011

BERRYVILLE -- Two Berryville youths have been arrested for burglary after the mother of one found a stolen gun and reported the pistol to police. According to authorities, the two 15-year-old boys broke into a Magnolia Village apartment late in the day on Monday, Nov. 21, by manipulating a security stick in a sliding glass door...

Ricky Phillips and R.D. Butler, with Berryville Public Works, were sucking up leaves raked to the curb by Berryville city residents who were participating in the city's annual leaf pickup program. The leaves are vacuumed into a truck and transported to the public works department where they are mulched over the winter and given away in the spring to area gardeners...

WASHINGTON D.C. -- U.S. Senators Mark Pryor and John Boozman, along with Congressmen Rick Crawford (AR-1), Tim Griffin (AR-2), Steve Womack (AR-3), and Mike Ross (AR-4) this week announced that the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department will receive a $1 million grant to repair and reconstruct federal highways and roads that were damaged by severe storms, flooding, and tornadoes this past spring...