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May 21st, 2013
The National Weather Service in Little Rock has issued a Flood Advisory for the Saline River at Benton until Wednesday evening.
At 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, the stage was 3.7 feet. Flood stage is 18.0 feet.
The river is expected to rise to near 17.5 feet around Wednesday afternoon, depending on rainfall amounts through Tuesday night. This forecast could change.
At this point, people along the Saline River are urged to monitor the latest river forecasts from the National Weather Service and be prepared to take action if this advisory is upgraded to a warning.
A Flash Flood Watch for Saline County remains in effect from 1 p.m. Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday morning. Showers and thunderstorms will redevelop over the area today and tonight. Areas of heavy rain will be likely this afternoon through the overnight hours. Rainfall amounts will average between 1 to 2 inches with locally higher amounts in excess of 4 inches possible.
Extremely amounts of moisture combined with several rounds of thunderstorms will allow for excessive rainfall and the potential for high water problems.
The Drainage Committee is scheduled to meet at 5:30 P.M., Tuesday, May 21, 2013 in the Mayor’s Conference Room at the Benton Municipal Complex.
The Street Committee Meeting set for Tuesday, May 21st has been cancelled due to a lack of items for the agenda.
May 20th
The man who last month allegedly shot himself on a stranger's front lawn on Millbrook Cove in Benton was arrested Friday, following his release from a local hospital.
Timothy Gauldin, 29, of Benton has been charged with possession of a firearm by a felon and filing a false police report.
A friend of Gauldin, 35-year-old Jason Gaunt of Benton, allegedly gave him the gun, according to police. He was arrested the day after the shooting and charged with furnishing a felon with a weapon.
According to the Arkansas Department of Justice, no exact time has been set for the hearing in the extortion case of Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner, but it should begin in the next 30 minutes or so. It will be in the court of U.S. Magistrate Judge H. David Young.
Here is the story from the Associated Press:
Ark. treasurer accused of taking cash from broker
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An affidavit filed in federal court alleges that Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner repeatedly took cash payments from a broker who invested state money.
The Bryant Historical Society will meet 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday at the Boswell Library in Bryant.
The Haskell Historical Society will meet 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday at Haskell City Hall.
May 18th
DES MOINES, Iowa — Lottery officials say the winning numbers in a near-historic Powerball jackpot have been drawn.
They are: 10, 13, 14, 22, 52 and Powerball 11.
Officials say the latest Powerball jackpot figure results are still pending. They had estimated it at $600 million.
With four of every five possible combinations of Powerball numbers in play, someone is almost sure to win the game's highest jackpot. The problem, of course, is those same odds just about guarantee the lucky person won't be you.
Current and former residents and friends of the Tull community will come together this coming Sunday to celebrate the 128th anniversary of Old Folks Singing.
The event will begin at 10 a.m. at Ebenezer United Methodist Church
The first Old Folks Singing took place on the third Sunday in May in 1885.
May 17th
The staff at Sparks Regional Medical Center tries to alleviate their patients' pain in a variety of ways — including through the power of music, thanks to a local volunteer.
David Bruce, 65, spends his afternoons as a hospital volunteer playing hymns on his diatonic harmonicas to staff and patients alike in the main entrance, in hallways and in patients' rooms. He learned the hymns, which fill up two thick, three-inch music books that he carries around the hospital along with his harmonicas, when he attended First United Methodist Church in Fort Smith with his parents as a child.
