Body in Las Vegas a Little Rock child
Authorities identified the body of a 3-month-old boy who died Sunday in a Las Vegas home as a Little Rock child, a spokesman for the Clark County, Nev., coroner’s office said Monday.
The infant was identified as Caleb Glover Jr.
The spokesman said the boy died at a home near Torrey Pines and Alexander Road in northwest Las Vegas on Sunday. The spokesman said she did not know the circumstances of the boy’s death, and it may take more than a month until an autopsy can be performed.
3 dead in separate Arkansas accidents
Three separate accidents on Arkansas highways Saturday and Sunday left three people dead, according to preliminary Arkansas State Police fatality reports.
Sara Michelle Croom, 28, was driving an all-terrain vehicle with three passengers west on Arkansas 58 in Sharp County about 7:30 p.m. Saturday when she lost control of the vehicle and it overturned, stopping in a ditch. Croom, of Cave City, was killed, and 34-year-old passenger Billy Jewel Ray Croom, also of Cave City, was taken to White River Medical Center in Batesville.
About 9 p.m. Saturday in Ashdown, 57-year-old Bobby Lee Burris was struck by a pickup as he attempted to walk across U.S. 71 from east to west. Driver Raymond D. Latson, 61, was uninjured.
About 9:30 a.m. Sunday, James Wroten, 66, of Greenwood was driving a 1998 Yamaha ATV north on Arkansas 309 about 4 miles south of Waveland when the vehicle veered off the highway and overturned, state police said. Wroten died from his injuries at the scene, state police said.
-ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
Judge closes court in megachurch case
TULSA - A judge could rule on a request for documents in the case of a Tulsa megachurch being sued by the mother of a girl who was raped last year on ministry property.
However, the judge closed the courtroom to the public for Tuesday’s hearing because Oklahoma Department of Human Services records involving a minor are being sought by attorneys for the Victory Christian Center.
The global ministry was sued in civil court in September for negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress after the rape of the girl by former Victory janitor Chris Denman.
Denman was sentenced in December to 55 years in prison as a result of that rape and other crimes.
The Associated Press is not naming the girl’s mother in order to protect the girl’s identity.
524 truancy charges filed in Tulsa in ’13
TULSA - School officials in Tulsa County have stepped up efforts to prosecute truancy cases, with more charges filed so far this year than in all of 2012.
The Tulsa County district attorney’s officehas filed truancy charges 524 times against parents whose children have missed school for 10 or more consecutive days this year, and the number is expected to rise when classes resume this fall.
For all of 2012, prosecutors filed 508 truancy cases in Tulsa County. In 2011, that number was 427.
Chris Johnson, chief accountability officer for Tulsa Public Schools, said the district now has one employee who focuses just on truancy, and that’s why the numbers have gone up.
Johnson said he hopes to add more staff members next year and get even more resources to go after parents of truant children.
“Our primary goal is not to see how many parents we can take to court,” Johnson said. “Our primary goal is to have students in class.”
The Tulsa World reported that the misdemeanor truancy charge carries a minimum fine of $25 on the first offense, $50 on the second offense and a maximum penalty of $250 and up to 15 days in jail for a third offense.
-THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Boy, 11, dies after he’s struck by boat
MIDWAY - Authorities have identified the 11-yearold boy who was killed in a boating accident on Bull Shoals Lake.
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said William Feehan of Millington, Tenn., died in the accident Saturday in north Arkansas. Commission spokesman Keith Stephens said William fell off a tube and was accidentally struck by a boat driven by his father.
Two others on the tube suffered minor injuries.
Stephens told The Baxter Bulletin there’s no indication alcohol played a role in the fatal collision.
So far this year, Arkansas has seen 11 boating fatalities compared with nine boating deaths in 2012.
-THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Canoe tips, drowns Paragould man, 57
DONIPHAN, Mo. - The Missouri State Highway Patrol said an Arkansas man drowned while canoeing in the Current River.
The victim was identified as 57-year-old Stephen T. Hill of Paragould.
The patrol said Hill drowned Sunday morning when his 16-foot canoe tipped over in the river about 5 miles north of Doniphan, Mo.
Another person in the canoe was able to swim to shore.
-THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Northwest Arkansas, Pages 10 on 07/31/2013