EARLY VOTING CONTINUED WEDNESDAY, IN REFERENCE TO RUN-OFF ELECTIONS FOR TWO LOCAL MAYORIAL RACES. IN RUSSELLVILLE, A TOTAL OF 835 BALLOTS WERE CAST AT POPE COUNTY'S ELECTION COMMISSION HEADQUARTERS. IN CLARKSVILLE, 153 EARLY VOTES HAD BEEN RECORDED AT THE JOHNSON COUNTY COURTHOUSE. EARLY VOTING CONTINUES THRU MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24th, FROM 8 A/M TO 4:30 WEEKDAYS. POLLS WILL BE OPEN FROM 7:30 TO 7:30 ON ELECTION DAY.
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Here is the latest Arkansas news from The Associated Press…
FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) - Jurors have convicted a Fort Smith man of killing two men with a machete. Twenty-one-year-old Gregory Kinsey had faced capital murder charges, but was found guilty of first- and second-degree murder yesterday. Kinsey was convicted of killing 39-year-old Brandon Prince and 32-year-old Nathan Young in June 2013.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Arkansas prosecutors have charged champion middleweight boxer Jermain Taylor in a shooting at his home. The 36-year-old Little Rock native was charged yesterday with first-degree battery and first-degree terroristic threatening. Authorities say Taylor shot his 41-year-old cousin, Tyrone Hinton, at Taylor's home in Maumelle in late August.
NASHVILLE, Ark. (AP) - An Arkansas man has been sentenced to 100 years in prison for beating and raping a 79-year-old woman and her 14-year-old great-granddaughter. Thirty-nine-year-old Adrian Wooten of Mineral Springs was sentenced yesterday. The attack occurred in August 2013 at the woman's house in Tollette.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) - A new faculty fellowship is being created at the University of Arkansas' College of Education and Health Professions thanks to a $500,000 gift from the A.L. Chilton Foundation. The foundation is establishing the fellowship in special education to benefit the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. The foundation was set up in 1945 in Texas by Arthur and Leonore Chilton.
