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STUTTGART -- Some would say the Nonviolence Youth Summit held by the Arkansas Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission was right on time as the community received the devastating news that one of its own students, Johnny Howard, 18, was identified as deceased and the latest victim of violence in Stuttgart.
The Pine Bluff office of AmeriCorps Seniors/Southeast Arkansas RSVP recently held a Volunteer Appreciation Come and Go Volunteer Luncheon. Volunteers were thanked for all they do in Jefferson County.
All roads led to the Grand Prairie Center in Stuttgart on Saturday afternoon for the first Showdown in Sugatown boxing event hosted by Stuttgart Gloves Not Guns Boxing Club, a nonprofit organization established in May 2022.
A four-year veteran of the Stuttgart Police Department was shot to death and a state trooper was wounded after law enforcement officers attempted to arrest a Stone County man following a vehicle pursuit that ended south of the city, according to the Arkansas State Police.
A district judge from Stuttgart was found dead Sunday in a lake about 30 miles east of Pine Bluff, and Jefferson County deputies are investigating the case as an accidental drowning, according to a sheriff’s office news release on Sunday.