Stories from Monday, August 13, 2012

Berryville -- Richard Kimberlin has been appointed chairman of the Board of Directors for Mercy Health Foundation Berryville. Kimberlin is a longtime supporter of Mercy. Since joining the board in 2010, he has served on various committees and as board vice chair. His commitment to programs, including the Black and White Charity Ball, has helped Mercy provide quality health care to the community...

HARRISON -- Former United States Senator, Congressman and Arkansas Governor David H. Pryor will be the 25th presenter in the John Paul Hammerschmidt Lecture Series. Pryor will speak in Harrison on Monday, Aug. 27, at 6:30 p.m. in the L.E. "Gene" Durand Center on North Arkansas College's Center Campus. His lecture will feature the Barbara and David Pryor Center for Oral and Visual History at the University of Arkansas. The presentation is open to the public free of charge...

BERRYVILLE -- Carroll County has experienced a brain gain in the last 40 years, joining the rest of the country in what has been a massive increase in the number of adults who have earned college degrees. In 1970, 5.1 percent of those over 25 years of age had college degrees in Carroll County. By 2010, 17.4 percent of adults here had completed college...

GREEN FOREST -- A federal appeals panel decided last week to uphold the hate crime law that led to last year's conviction of two Green Forest men. A federal jury convicted Frankie Maybee and Sean Popejoy of conspiracy and federal hate crime charges in May 2011, after they and Curtis Simer ran a car from a Carroll County road and seriously injured the five Hispanic men inside...

BERRYVILLE -- A Berryville man faces felony child abuse and domestic charges after an altercation with family members. Javier B. Martinez, 18, was arrested by the Berryville Police Department on Monday, Aug. 6 after he injured his infant son and girlfriend during an argument, police said...