Stories from Friday, January 23, 2015

Jan. 15 Eddie Lee James Chriswell, 26, Eureka Springs, was booked on hold for Boone County and on failure to register as a sex offender. Ricardo Garcia, 32, Green Forest, was booked on speeding, driving on a suspended license, careless and prohibited driving and on hold for Webb County...

Auguste Deter was a forty-something-year-old woman living in Kassel, Germany. She had a pleasant life with her husband and their only daughter; nothing extraordinary, but she was irreplaceable to her family and her to them. So it was especially hard when Auguste began to show signs of "old age" well before her time. Her memory began to fail. She started suffering from delusions, confusion and anxiety...

Community Blood Center of the Ozarks (CBCO) has issued a Code Yellow Alert for A-negative blood type. There is currently less than a two-day supply of this type on hospital shelves and donations are needed immediately. Donors to CBCO provide all of the blood for patients at 37 area hospitals. Every five minutes on average, a transfusion takes place. It takes around 250 donations each day to meet the area's blood needs...

Angelo Yao, popular leader of the monthly Basin Park drum circle and former traffic control officer for the Eureka Springs Police Department, requested that his appeal be heard by a jury after he pleaded no contest and was found guilty of several domestic violence charges stemming from an incident involving his wife last St. Patrick's day weekend...

Berryville's low- to moderate-income households might get some help from the city with water line installation if the city's U.S. Department of Agriculture rural development grant comes through. Cassie Elliott, a grant writer with Visionary Milestones Inc., presented these grant applications during a public hearing at Tuesday's Berryville City Council meeting...

Berryville's low- to moderate-income households might get some help from the city with water line installation if the city's U.S. Department of Agriculture rural development grant comes through. Cassie Elliott, a grant writer with Visionary Milestones Inc., presented these grant applications during a public hearing at Tuesday's Berryville City Council meeting...

In the top 20 percentile of performance among schools in Arkansas, Green Forest Elementary has quite a bit to celebrate. Superintendent Matt Summers recognized the school for this achievement at the school board's meeting Jan. 19. "We are the only county school to be recognized," Summers said. "It's a very big deal," he said...

The Berryville School District's financial situation isn't ideal, but Superintendent Phil Clark believes the district can take steps now to plan for a brighter future. Clark discussed these plans with the school board at its meeting Monday night. Along with Dr. ...