Classic cars stolen from collector
BELLA VISTA - Two vehicles with a combined value of $105,000 were stolen from the Highlands area Wednesday.
The cars are a 1966 Chevrolet Corvette and a 1969 Chevrolet Camaro SS, both belonging to Ken Miner, according to a Bella Vista Police Department report.
The Corvette is “sunfire” yellow with a black convertible top, and the Camaro is metallic silver with black stripes, Miner said.
The vehicles were taken from a locked barn on Miner’s property. Miner told police, however, he could not see any sign of forced entry.
The cars are part of a 12-vehicle collection, according to a police report.
Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of these vehicles are asked to call Detective Mike Kugler or Detective Ed Williams at (479) 855-3771.
- BENTON COUNTY DAILY RECORD
Woman charged with manslaughter
OKMULGEE, Okla.
- Prosecutors have charged the foster parent of a 3-year-old girl with manslaughter after the girl died from blunt force trauma to the head.
Prosecutors filed the charges against Sharon Whitecloud, 61, nearly nine months after the death of Kyra Zubah. The child was admitted to a Tulsa hospital and declared brain dead on Nov. 10. Kyra was in the foster care of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
The charges, which were filed Wednesday, accuse Whitecloud of grabbing, shaking and pushing the girl, causing her to hit her head on a solid object.
- THE ASSOCIATED PRESSRogers fire official gets special honor
ROGERS - Jake Rhoades, a deputy fire chief with the Rogers Fire Department, was awarded the professional designation of chief fire officer.
Rhoades is one of only 693 chief fire officers worldwide, as designated by the Commission on Professional Credentialing.
The commission awards the chief fire officer designation after an individual meets criteria that include an assessment of the applicant’s education, experience, professional development, technical competencies, contributions to the profession and communityinvolvement.
In addition, all applicants are required to identify a future professional development plan.
The Commission on Professional Credentialing is a division of the Center for Public Safety Excellence Inc.
- ROGERS MORNING NEWSKUAF cuts music,
adds news, talk
FAYETTEVILLE - University of Arkansas public station KUAF-FM will add three hours of news and talk programs to its daily schedule starting Monday.
The station, an affiliate of National Public Radio, will premier a daily edition of the local news magazine Ozarks at Large with news director Kyle Kellams from noon-1 p.m., followed by NPR’s award-winning news/talk program Talk of the Nation, 1-3 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Classical music will continue to be played on KUAF in the mornings and evenings.
“As the population of Northwest Arkansas has grown over the past several years, so have the requests to broadcast ‘Talk of the Nation’ on KUAF,” said station manager Rick Stockdell, also an associate professor of journalism. “The size of our news audience has increased in recent years, while our classical music audience has shrunk.”
“Ozarks at Large” will be rebroadcast at 7 p.m.
Monday through Thursday, and at 6 p.m. on Friday. The weekend edition of “Ozarks at Large” will continue to air Sunday at 9 a.m.
- NORTHWEST ARKANSAS TIMESTulsa chase leaves man, 28, dead
TULSA - Tulsa police say a man leading an officer on a high speed chase was killed when his car went airborne and crashed into the second floor of an apartment complex.
Police say Larry Steven Bible Jr., 28, died in the collision early Thursday.
Investigators say Bible was being pursued shortly after midnight when he drove off a city street and hit a curb. Police say the car went airborne for nearly 100 feet before crashing into the apartment building about 20 feet off the ground.
The car then spun into the wall of a first floor apartment and knocked the wall onto a woman who was asleep in bed. The woman suffered only minor injuries.
- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Northwest Arkansas, Pages 10 on 07/30/2010