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Woman drowns in Buffalo
HARRISON (AP) — The National Park Service says a Vermont woman has drowned while kayaking on the Buffalo National River in northern Arkansas. The park service said Wednesday that the 79-year-old woman’s kayak overturned around 2:30 p.m. Monday in Newton County, upstream from Ozark Campground, …
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Low-income families boost grocery budgets at local food distributions
The Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) is partnering with the Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas to assist seniors and families applying for SNAP, a program that helps recipients afford healthy foods. Over the next eight months, DHS staff will make 28 visits to food …
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Weekend Events
Weekend events in Batesville and the surrounding area for Friday, May 10 – Saturday, May 11, 2013.
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Service News
Norfolk, Va — Navy Seaman Recruit Peyton J. Ellis, son of Judy A. Ellis of Batesville and Robert E. Johnson, of Oak Lawn, Ill., recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Ill. During the eight-week program, Ellis completed a …
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News of Other Days
Editor’s note: This column ran previously in the Guard on Dec. 1, 1993.
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‘Y&R’ star Jeanne Cooper dies at 84
LOS ANGELES — Jeanne Cooper, the enduring soap opera star who played grande dame Katherine Chancellor for nearly four decades on “The Young and the Restless,” has died. She was 84. Cooper died Wednesday morning in her sleep, her son the actor Corbin Bernsen wrote …
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Police: Dead Boston bombing suspect buried
BOSTON (AP) — The body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried in an undisclosed location outside the city of Worcester, where it had been held for a week at a funeral home, police said today. “As a result of our public …
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Home invasion claim ends in protection order arrest
Claiming his child was injured during an alleged aggravated robbery has resulted in a trip to jail for the caller and charges filed against him. Independence County Officer Shawn Stephens said he responded to the call at 1431 Batesville Blvd. Lot D on Wednesday and …
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Accused child murderer pleads, gets 46 years
Forty-six years. That was the sentence agreed upon for the man accused of killing a toddler, putting her body in a box and placing her in the refrigerator. Jurors were to begin hearing the case today against Jesse W. Holloman, who is charged with first-degree …
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Batesville man accused of robbing restaurants, jailed
Shortly before midnight a man demanding money from a fast-food restaurant was caught because two employees had devised a sign on when to call 911 should something like that occur. Earlier this morning it did. Felony robbery charges have been filed against 25-year-old Curtis Watson …
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Four arrested on drug charges in Cleburne County
HEBER SPRINGS — Narcotics investigators from the Cleburne County Sheriff’s Office, along with other local law enforcement recently searched two residences in Heber Springs, resulting in four adults — two at each location — being arrested and taken to …
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Southerners to graduate
SOUTHSIDE — Commencement exercises for the Southside High School graduation will be at 7 p.m. Thursday at Independence Hall on the campus of the University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville for 93 graduating seniors. Valedictorians are Whitney Kirstin Brown, Margaret Sydney Ried, Abram Jaden …
