The State/Region In Brief

Man dies after leap onto U.S. highway

LITTLE ROCK - Authorities say a man has died after jumping from an overpass and being hit by a vehicle on U.S. 67/167 in Jacksonville.

Arkansas State Police say it happened late Monday morning at the James Street overpass. Pulaski County Coroner Gerone Hobbs said the man died at the scene.

The Jacksonville Police Department said in a statement that officers are investigating “the reasoning behind the incident.”

State police were reportedly working the accident, which was blocking the roadway at one point.

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16-year-old, 2 more die in 5 a.m. crash

CROSSETT - Three people are dead after a traffic crash in southeast Arkansas and among the victims is a 16-year-old boy.

Arkansas State Police said the crash occurred on Arkansas 133 at 5 a.m. Sunday.

A pickup driven by 16-year-old D’Angelo Mitchell of Monroe, La., went off the left side of the road and hit a driveway embankment. The truck became airborne and struck a large tree.

State police said all three victims were pronounced dead at the scene by the Ashley County coroner.

Also killed were 33-yearold Earl Turner and 44-yearold Gregory Mitchell, both of Warren.

The state police report said the road was dry and weather clear at the time of the crash. The accident happened about six miles south of Crossett.

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Woman dies in Tulsa apartment shooting

TULSA - Authorities said a 25-year-old woman is dead after a shooting at a Tulsa apartment complex.

Police said the woman was found suffering from a gunshot wound at 7:45 p.m.

at Addison Apartments. The Tulsa World reports that the woman was pronounced dead at St. John Medical Center.

Authorities have not yet released the woman’s name.

Police said they have not yet arrested anyone in the fatal shooting, but said the woman may have been in contact with her killer earlier in the day.

Anyone with information is asked to call Tulsa police.

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Man charged in ’09 death of wife, 47

NEVADA, Mo. - The estranged husband of a woman who was killed in 2009 is charged in her death.

Vernon County authorities said another man, a farmhand on the suspect’s farm, also is charged in the July 2009 death of 47-yearold Belinda Jean Beisly, who was found dead in her home north of Deerfield.

Vernon County authorities said 57-year-old Bob T.

Beisly II and 33-year-old Jeremy Maples were charged Saturday.

The Joplin Globe reports the Beislys were in the midst of divorcing when she died.

Vernon County Sheriff Jason Mosher said new evidence led to Beisly’s arrest on Friday and Maples’ arrest on Saturday but he declined to elaborate.

Online court records do not indicate either man has an attorney.

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Authorities: Murder charges await report

PAWHUSKA, Okla. - Authorities in Osage County are waiting for a report from the Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s Office before filing charges in the death of a Bartlesville resident whose body was found by a hunter.

The remains of 62-yearold Timothy Hauser were found Dec. 19 in a pasture about four miles west of Bartlesville. Hauser vanished Aug. 9 from a casino in Osage County. Investigators say they believe he was robbed and beaten.

The Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise reports two people have been charged in the robbery but officials are holding off filing murder charges.

Prosecutors say the suspects in the robbery, 41-yearold Rusty Boyd Petty and 28-year-old Trysta Alberta Eileen Shaffer, have a Feb. 22 court date. Officials say the medical examiner’s report is expected to ready by then.

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State to get $75,000

in drug settlement

LITTLE ROCK - The Arkansas attorney general’s office has reached a settlement with a pharmaceutical company over allegations it paid inducements to doctors to prescribe certain drugs.

The office said Monday that the state will receive $75,000 from the settlement with Victory Pharma Inc.

over prescriptions written for the drugs Naprelan, Xodol, Fexmid and Dolgic.

The $75,000 will be available to the state’s Medicaid program, including federal matching funds.

Arkansas was one of a number of states that joined the court action with the federal government.

The prescriptions in question were written between 2007 and 2009.

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Health officials: Be wary of rabid skunks

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri conservation officials are urging people to be cautious around skunks that soon will be emerging from winter shelters.

Skunks are one of the two primary carriers of the rabies virus in Missouri. Encounters increase during skunks’ mating season, which starts in late February and continues through March.

Missouri health officials last year reported finding 12 rabid skunks and 16 rabid bats with cases reported in 14 counties. Rabies is transmitted through the animals’ saliva and usually occurs after a bite. It also can enter the body through an open wound or mucous membranes. Treatment should start within days.

Symptoms of rabies in skunks include unusual behavior such as being active during the day, aggressiveness and seizures.

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Northwest Arkansas, Pages 8 on 02/12/2013

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