4 properties added to historic register
Four properties in Arkansas have been named to the National Register of Historic Places.
The Register is a list of historically significant properties.
The properties:
Dolph Camp, Bussey and Peace Halls Historic District on the Southern Arkansas University campus in Magnolia in Columbia County.
The property includes three Colonial Revival-style buildings erected between 1949 and 1957.
Park Hill in Paris in Logan County. Park Hill is a Mediterranean Revival-style building constructed in 1924.
Old U.S. 71, Ashdown Segment, constructed in 1934, and Old U.S. 71, Ogden Segment, in Little River County, built in 1940, bypassed sections of two-lane concrete highway. “The paving of highways, such as Old U.S. 71 in Arkansas during the 1910s through the 1940s, was significant in that it allowed motorists to more easily travel around their areas, especially in inclement weather,” according to the National Register nomination. “People in Ashdown, Ogden and the surrounding rural area could now, via U.S. 71, travel in that part of Little River County even during wet weather.” - ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE Game & Fish looks
into eagle deaths
The state Game and Fish Commission and the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service are investigating the December deaths of two bald eagles in Logan County just south of Booneville, a Friday news release said.
Tests revealed that the two birds found near the Golden City Church in Logan County died of poisoning, the release said.
The death of an eagle found shot near Highland in Pike County earlier this month is also still under investigation, the release said.
The Game and Fish Commission is offering a $1,000 reward and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is offering a reward of up to $2,500 for information leading to a conviction in the killing of the Logan County eagles.
Bald eagles are protected by the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, both federal wildlife laws.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Stop Poaching Hotline at (800) 482-9262.
- ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTEPlanned Marshals
Museum gets gift
FORT SMITH - The U.S. Marshals Museum planned for Fort Smith is getting a $200,000 contribution.
The gift is from the Melanie Holt Speer Foundation, and Margaret Speer Carter said the donation is in honor of her parents.
Museum President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Dunn said the board has raised $10 million of the $50 million it is seeking. The Southwest Times Record reports it will be located downtown on the Arkansas River and will overlook the Oklahoma border.
The museum is to honor the U.S. marshals who were based in Fort Smith and patrolled the Indian territorythat is now Oklahoma.
Organizers hope to have a groundbreaking in 2014.
Carter said her father was once deputized during the World War II era.
- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tulsa officer still out after shooting
TULSA - Tulsa police said an officer who fatally shot a reportedly suicidal man remains on administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation.
The department said Monday that Officer Daniel Madewell was involved in the fatal shooting Saturday when police were called to an apartment complex on reports of a suicidal man.
Authorities said the man was standing on his balcony when he pointed what appeared to be a weapon at Madewell, who opened fire.
Tulsa police said officers did not learn that the weapon was a BB gun until after the fatal shooting.
Tulsa police said Madewell was hired at the Tulsa Police Department in 2007.
Tulsa police have not yet released the name of the man who was killed, pending the notification of his relatives.
- THE ASSOCIATED PRESSTwo arrested after burned body found
NORMAN, Okla. - Norman police said two people have been arrested on murder complaints in the death of a man whose body was found in his burned home.
Capt. Tom Easley said Saturday that 24-year-old Christopher Cody King of Del City and 19-year-old Mary Courtney Cheyenne York of Del City were arrested on complaints of first-degree murder, robbery, larceny and concealing stolen property in connection with the death of 51-year-old Patrick Burton of Norman.
Easley did not know if the two had attorneys yet.
Burton’s body was found Wednesday inside his home after firefighters extinguished a fire. The state medical examiner’s office has determined that Burton was shot to death.
Easley said two other people who were sought in the case have been found and were not arrested.
- THE ASSOCIATED PRESSJoplin man arrested
in child-sex sting
JOPLIN, Mo. - A Joplin School District employee accused of sending pornographic images to a southeast Kansas girl has been arrested on a federal warrant.
The Joplin Globe reports that the network administrator fled in his vehicle before he was arrested Friday after attempting to meet the 14-year-old girl for sex at a Joplin shopping mall. Police said the man is scheduled to be taken Tuesday before a federal judge in Springfield.
The criminal affidavit said the man had forced his ex-girlfriend’s daughter to perform various sexual acts when she was between the ages of 8 and 12. When he reportedly tried to reconnect with her through social media, the girl sought help.
Her family allowed law enforcement to take over her Facebook page, and he reportedly sent sexual comments and images.
- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Northwest Arkansas, Pages 8 on 02/19/2013