Homicide charge filed in fatal crash
A Little Rock man was arrested Tuesday night and charged with negligent homicide in an April crash that killed a motorcyclist.
Danny Sexton, 32, of 2524 Winne Drive surrendered to detectives Tuesday night, nearly four months after he made a left turn and was struck by a motorcycle driven by Michael Lewis.
Arrest affidavits said Sexton was headed east on East Roosevelt Road about 11 p.m. April 17 in his silver GMC Sierra and pulled into a left-turn-only lane, waited for one car to pass and entered the intersection.
Sexton told police that as he turned, something struck him, and he pulled off into the grass.
According to detectives, Sexton started turning left onto Commercial Lane before reaching the intersection, and a witness said that’s when the motorcycle struck the truck.
Lewis, who turned 51 that day, was thrown from his bike. He was taken to the UAMS Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
According to arrest affidavits, Sexton did not appear intoxicated at the time of the crash and did not test positive for alcohol but did test positive for other drugs.
Sexton was released from the Pulaski County jail on bond and will appear Tuesday in Little Rock District Court.
- ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTEArkansan charged
in 2011 shooting
JANE, Mo. - An 39-year-old Arkansas man has been charged in a 2011 shooting death in southwest Missouri.
The Joplin Globe reported that Fred H.
Bremer of Rogers is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the Feb. 20, 2011, death of 68-year-old Jack McCain, also of Rogers.
The McDonald County sheriff’s office said McCain’s body was found on a rural road about 8 miles east of Jane in far southwest Missouri.
Online court records don’t list a lawyer for Bremer, who’s being held in the McDonald County jail on $25,000 bond.
- THE ASSOCIATED PRESSTulsa’s Brady Street to shed its KKK link
TULSA - The Tulsa City Council has approved a plan to rename a popular downtown street named for a businessman who was in the Ku Klux Klan.
The proposal passed by the council Thursday would remove Wyatt Tate Brady as the street’s namesake and replace it with Mathew Brady, a 19th-century photographer best known for his images of American Civil War battlefields.
In addition, signs that read “Reconciliation Way” would be placed atop street signs throughout the Brady Arts District, a successful downtown redevelopment project.
The compromise plan was suggested by Councilor Blake Ewing. Ewing said the change would retain the district’s name without honoring the former namesake.
The compromise was endorsed by Tulsa MayorDewey Bartlett. Councilors last week postponed a vote on changing the street name to Burlington Street.
- THE ASSOCIATED PRESSFirefighter trainer charged in assault
GALENA, Mo. - A former southwest Missouri fire marshal has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman he was training to become a firefighter.
The Springfield News-Leader reported that 43-year-old Michael Creswell is being held in the Stone County in lieu of a $100,000 bond. No attorney is listed for him in online court records.
The probable-cause statement said the former fire marshal for the Southern Stone County Fire Protection District told the trainee that she had to have sex with him to complete her training. The woman told authorities she had sex with Creswell at her house.
But she said that when she told him to stop, he didn’t.
The woman said Creswell also groped her and made sexual comments. She quit going to training classes because she did not want to be around Creswell.
- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Man on highway hit, killed by car
BARTLESVILLE, Okla. - Oklahoma police said a 33-year-old man walking on U.S. 60 east of Bartlesville died when he was struck by a car.
The highway patrol said David Micheal Butler of Pawhuska was walking westbound in the eastbound lanes when he was hit Thursday at 10:26 p.m.
Butler was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to the highway patrol, Butler was struck by a Chevrolet Cruze driven by 50-yearold Jerry Woods of Nowata. Woods was not injured.
A preliminary police report said the pedestrian’s actions caused the accident.
- THE ASSOCIATED PRESSPark service gives repatriation grants
ADA, Okla. - The National Park Service has awarded the Chickasaw Nation more than $7,000 to help the tribe return ancestral human remains and cultural objects.
The grant money is part of more than $65,000 that the park service awarded to various tribes, museums and groups under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis said in a news release that Protection and Repatriation Act helps correct mistreatment of American Indians by returning human remains and sacred objects.
He said the grants will further the process of returning more than 10,000 American Indian remains and 1 million sacred objects to mainland tribes and Hawaiian organizations.
- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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