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A Northern Ireland woman has been accused of a £6,000 fraud by posing as American dancer and singer Mackenzie Ziegler.

Thursday, May 13, 2021 Meeting in a special session Tuesday night to address a looming crisis at the county jail, the Carroll County Quorum Court approved a motion calling for a $2-an-hour raise and a $500 retention bonus for detention officers. The motion called for the retention bonus to be paid at the end of August. The quorum court voted 10-1 to approve the motion by District 1 Justice of the Peace Jack Deaton. The lone dissenting vote was cast by District 3 JP Harrie Farrow, who represents...

Tuesday, May 11, 2021 A hastily assembled advisory committee voted unanimously Monday to recommend that the Carroll County Quorum Court immediately raise detention officers’ pay by $3 an hour in an effort to prevent the county jail from shutting down by the end of the week. The committee, comprising mayors and police chiefs from Berryville, Eureka Springs and Green Forest as well as Carroll County Circuit Judge Scott Jackson, Carroll County District Judge Dale Ramsey and Berryville accountant ...

Horse & Hound Trending: The owner and rider of Olympic eventer Welton Envoy have paid tribute to a “truly one in a million horse” after his death aged 34. “Eddie”, who won the Kentucky Three-Day Event in 2000, and was selected to represent New Zealand at that year’s Olympics, with Blyth Tait, died peacefully at his home for many years, and that of his breeders, the Barrs’ Welton Stud. The Welton Crackerjack gelding, who was out of Minerva, full sister to Ginny Elliot’s top-le...

Impeachment is over, but other efforts to reckon with Trumps post-election chaos have just begun Rosalind S. Helderman, The Washington Post Feb. 21, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail WASHINGTON - The state of Michigan and the city of Detroit have asked a federal judge to sanction attorneys who filed lawsuits that falsely alleged the November vote was fraudulent, the first of several similar efforts expected across the country. An Atlanta-area prosecutor has launched a criminal investigation into wheth...

Tuesday, February 9, 2021 Carroll County Judge Sam Barr (center) on Friday, Feb. 5, signs a grant agreement for a $207,121 grant intended to help provide broadband access to rural residents in the county. Joining him at the signing were Chris Claybaker, economic development director for the city of Berryville (left) and Rodney Ballance, president and founder of Berryville Broadband, the company that will make use of the funds provided by the Arkansas Rural Connect Grant program to provide broa...

trip to asia and keeping his eye on the weak job market at home. the president arriving in mumbai, india, stressing that boosting the u.s. economy is very high on his agenda. mr. obama promoting $10 billion in trade deals that the white house hopes will create 54,000 jobs and maybe just maybe put a dent in the unemployment rate. not everybody rolling out the welcome mat for him. protesters taking to the streets, chanting slogans and showing their anger at the u.s. white house correspon...