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D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton is one of many locals who hope the unsightly fencing is only a temporary measure. She told The Washington Times that she wants “to keep the People’s House open to the people.” “Permanent fencing would send an un-American message to the nation and the world, by transforming our democracy from one that is accessible and of the people to one that is exclusive and fearful of its own citizens,” she told fellow members of Congress on Feb. 11, when she int...

Photos: 11 people are now facing murder trials in Baxter County Circuit Court. Pictured are: (top row, from left) Ryan James Lindsey; Allison Cunningham, Skyler Brazil, Ashley Hendricks, James Tyler Davis; Jeffery Shepherd, (bottom row) Savannah Wren, Baxter Stowers, Amber Runau, Jonathan Mauldin and Robert Dean Penny. There will be no jury trials in Arkansas until May 1, according to a ruling issued Friday by the Arkansas Supreme Court. The action to extend the prohibition of jury trials was t...

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: The day after the mob attack on the Capitol, Capitol Police sealed the area off from the public with a three-mile-long fence topped with razor wire. As Jordan Pascale from member station WAMU reports, some lawmakers and residents are worried the fence will become permanent. JORDAN PASCALE, BYLINE: You cant get anywhere near the Capitol right now thanks to an 8-foot-tall fence that went up on January 7. CHARLES ALLEN: Things that began as temporary sure have a habit of bec...

More than five weeks after the U.S. Capitol riot, the fence topped with razor wire creating a three-mile perimeter around the Capitol grounds is still in place and Capitol Police said Thursday there was no timeline to take it down.

A difficult balancing act at the US Capitol Fencing and razor wire reinforce the security zone on Capitol Hill in Washington. Permanent fencing should be used to protect the building, according to the Capitol police force’s acting chief. (Eileen Putman/The Associated Press) By Mark Sherman The Associated Press WASHINGTON – The terrace on the west side of the U.S. Capitol used to be a popular place for tourists and Washingtonians alike to watch the sun dip behind the Lincoln Memorial at the ...

Photo: Allison Cunningham Three of the four people now charged in the murder of 35-year-old Cody Stradford have entered not guilty pleas. Allison Cunningham of Mountain Home who was arrested in Hidalgo County, Texas with another person accused in connection with Stradford’s death, 28-year-old Ryan Lindsey, appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday. Cunningham entered a not guilty plea to charges of first-degree murder, arson, kidnapping, second-degree battery and possession of a firear...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The terrace on the west side of the Capitol used to be a popular...

“D.C. does not support it,” said D.C. councilman Charles Allen, whose district includes the Capitol Hill neighborhood. U.S. Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.) said on Twitter, “I believe we can keep Members, press, staff, my constituents, and all those who work here safe without walling off the symbol of our democracy. It’s the People’s House — let’s keep it that way.” Advertisement A petition being circulated online at change.org against making permanent the temporary fences that wer...

Four people have been arrested and charged with kidnapping and murder charges relating to human remains found in a burned out car this week in rural north Arkansas, the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office said. A 911 reported the burned vehicle”with what looked like a body inside” just south of Mountain Home at about 10 a.m., the sheriff’s office said. Deputies located the vehicle and sent the body to the state Medical Examiner’s Office in Little Rock for an autopsy. “It appears the vehi...

Three arrested, charged with first-degree murder in Baxter County case By Region 8 Newsdesk | December 17, 2020 at 9:40 PM CST - Updated December 22 at 5:08 PM BAXTER COUNTY, Ark. (KAIT) - The Baxter County Sheriff’s Office has identified the man found dead inside a burned car. The sheriff’s office said the Arkansas State Medical Examiner’s Office in Little Rock identified the victim as 35-year-old Cody Benjamin Stradford of Mountain Home. Stradford’s parents filed a missing pers...