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This Week at the MCSO

Gregg Alexander, Marion County Sheriff Deputies responded to forty-four calls for service that included four domestic disturbances, five property checks, one felony arrest and three misdemeanor arrests. Deputies completed twenty-six incident reports and investigated four motor vehicle crashes. A deputy completed week ten of twelve weeks of the basic police academy at the Arkansas Law Enforcement Training Academy in East Camden.
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Saturday Storm Damage

Storms raced across Marion County Saturday and pictured here is a fallen tree snapping power lines. The power lines lay across Hwy. 14 North of Sailor Hollow Terrace. Entergy was enroute to restore power and clear the scene.
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Right to Repair

Colorado’s first-in-the-nation law allowing farmers to repair their own equipment could be “the first chink in the armor” that has allowed only manufacturers to complete some repairs, said Rusty Rumley, senior staff attorney for the National Agricultural Law Center. Rusty Rumley comments on Colorado’s right-to-repair law.
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“Ossifragus”, New to the Ozarks

Along the Ozark streams, a favorite place of mine nowadays, as it gets hot and muggy, there comes the cry of a strange type of crow, a kind of caw that sounds like the black rascal is choking on something or trying to gargle. When I take people down the river who aren’t familiar with the ‘fish crow’ they are puzzled by the call.
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