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Wiggins, John - Booking Date: 09-04-2022 11:17 a.m.; Charges: HOLD FOR OTHER AGENCIES Belcher, Adam Ray - Booking Date: 9-01-2022 1:43 p.m.; Charges: HOLD FOR DOC Nodine, Kiley Cherie - Booking: 09-01-2022 - 8:45 a.m.; Charges: FAILURE TO APPEAR MISDEMEANOR Stice, Niellein Lia - Booking Date: 08-31-2022 - 7:31 p.m.; Charges: FAILURE TO APPEAR MISDEMEANOR; FAILURE TO APPEAR; HOLD FOR OTHER AGENCY Lewis, Randall S. - Booking Date: 08-31-2022 3:27 p.m.; Charges: HOLD FOR DOC Williams, Steven Austin - Booking Date: 08-31-2022 - 2:39 p.m.; Charges: HOLD FOR DOC Davis, Akeem - Booking Date: 08-31-2022 - 1:44 p.m.; Charges: HOLD FOR DOC Rogers, Seth Andrew - Booking Date: 08-30-2022 - 1:24 p.m.; Charges: WHITE WARRANT Released: Crouch, Celinda Kay - Release Date: 09-03-2022 - 2:00 p.m.; Booking Date: 09-02-2022 - 8:06 a.m.; Charges: PUBLIC INTOXICATION DRINKING IN PUBLIC Merrill, Donald Jason - Booking Date: 08-29-2022 - 12:28 p.m.; Charges: CHARGES PENDING Delong, Vincent Paul - Release Date: 08-29-2022 - 6:07 p.m.; Booking Date: 08-23-2022 - 11:21 p.m.; Charges: POSS OF METH WITH INTENT TO DELIVERY; HOLD FOR OTHER AGENCY; POSS SCH II CONT SUB NOT METH INTENT DEL; POSS SCH VI CONT SUB WITH PURPOSE TO DEL; POSSESSION OF FIREARM BY CERTAIN PERSON; NO DRIVERS LICENSE SIMULTANEOUS POSSESSION OF DRUGS AND FIR; THEFT BY RECEIVING; POSSESSION DRUG PARA FELONY; POSSESSING INSTRUMENTS OF CRIME; NO PROOF OF INSURANCE Richardson, Jacobb - Release Date: 08-29-2022 - 5:43 p.m.; Booking Date: 08-29-2022 - 3:53 p.m.; Charges: DISORDERLY CONDUCT; HARRASSMENT Miller, Reba Diane - Release Date: 08-29-2022 3:44 p.m.; Booking Date: 06-25-2022 - 12:51 a.m.; Charges: HOLD FOR BAXTER COUNTY; THEFT OF PROPERTY; CRIMINAL TRESPASS; POSS SCH I OR II CONT SUB METH OR COCAIN; POSSESSION DRUG PARA FELONY; POSS OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA Ferrell, Brenna Marie - Release Date: 08-29-2022 - 1:32 p.m.; Booking Date: 08-29-2022 - 1:01 p.m.; Charges: AGGRAVATED ASSAULT Horton, Garrett Dale - Release Date: 08-29-2022 - 10:43 a.m.; Booking Date: 08-18-2022 - 11:17 p.m.; Charges: DOMESTIC BATTERY 3RD DEGREE; ENDANGERING THE WALFARE OF A MINOR 3RD; ENDANGERING THE WALFARE OF A MINOR 3RD .
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UAFS Announces Child Care Center

by Rachel Rodemann Putman, Associate Director for Strategic Communications FT. SMITH - The University of Arkansas – Fort Smith announced Tuesday, September 6, 2022, a partnership with the Arkansas Department of Human Services that will bring in more than $1 million to help the campus build and staff an early childhood education center.
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MC Ballot Draw

Ballot positions have been determined for all contested races in the upcoming November general election in Marion County. Marion County Election Commissioners Gary Schnoor, Scott Carter, and Jimmy Lynch held a public meeting to conduct the randomized drawing on Monday, August 29, at 10:00 a.m. in the Marion County Courthouse Annex Courtroom.
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Tinnitus Support Group to meet

Do you have ringing or buzzing in your ears? If you have tinnitus, or have a loved one bothered by it, the Mountain Home Tinnitus Support Group will be launched in the weeks ahead. The group will meet monthly (date/time to be determined based on member feedback and room availability) at the Donald W.
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Y-S Goes 2-0

2-0 YELLVILLE - The Yellville-Summit Panthers hosted the Johnson County West-Side Rebels on Friday, September 2, in Yellville. The Rebels were 0-1 after losing to the Dover Pirates in week 0, while the Panthers defeated the Baptist Prep Eagles in Little Rock in week 0.
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Gas Prices Decline Going into Labor Day;

BOSTON - After a seemingly never-ending spring of price-hikes at the pump, gas prices gas prices have declined every week of the summer and are expected to be the lowest since March 3 and 20% lower than on July 4, at $3.79* per gallon. According to GasBuddy, the leading fuel savings platform saving American drivers the most money on gas, prices this Labor Day weekend will continue to fall slightly from summer highs, though remain over 60¢ per gallon more expensive than last year.
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Rutledge Announces Major Victory in Fight to End Opioid Epidemic

LITTLE ROCK— Arkansas Attorney General Rutledge announced that a federal district court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled in favor of Arkansas and forty-one other states, allowing the coalition to proceed with its antitrust lawsuit against Indivior, Inc. and Reckitt Benckiser Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for market manipulation of their product Suboxone, a prescription medication commonly used to treat opioid addiction.
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ME welcomes Mason to Flippin Sept. 1

Peggy Mason has been hired by CherryRoad Media to work at the Mountaineer Echo (ME) as a Part-Time Reporter and Photographer. Mason has been working as a stringer or freelance reporter and photographer for the past 14 months and was the photographer for the award-winning front page photo that won the Mountaineer Echo the award for Best Front Page at the Arkansas Press Association awards ceremony in June.
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