New billboard touts 'white pride radio'
HARRISON -- A new billboard in Harrison advertises Web-based "whiteprideradio.com" and is leased by the Knights Party of Zinc, formerly the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
Knights Party national director Thom Robb told The Harrison Daily Times that the group is leasing the space for a year. Robb was national director of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which the Southern Poverty Law Center says Robb renamed the Knights Party.
The billboard shows a young girl holding a dog and reads "It's NOT Racist to (love) Your People," with an image of a heart in place of the word love. It includes the website whiteprideradio.com, which redirects to kkkradio.com.
Another billboard in Harrison that read "Anti-Racist is a Code Word for Anti-White" was taken down more than a month ago.
-- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Teen killed when vehicle hits 2 trees
POCAHONTAS -- Arkansas State Police said a 15-year-old girl was killed and two other teenagers were injured in a single-vehicle crash near Pocahontas.
A state police report said Summer Ungerrank of Pocahontas died in the crash just before 7:30 p.m. Monday.
The report said Ungerrank was a passenger in a southbound vehicle that went out of control when it topped a hill, then crashed into two trees.
The 16-year-old driver and a 14-year-old passenger were taken to a Jonesboro hospital with undisclosed injuries.
-- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tennessee trucker dies in I-40 crash
WIDENER -- A truck driver from Tennessee died of injuries he suffered when his rig crashed on Interstate 40 in eastern Arkansas.
Arkansas State Police said Jason Mitchell, 40, of Milan, Tenn., died at a Forrest City hospital.
A state police report said Mitchell was going east near Widener just after 10 p.m. Tuesday when the semi crossed the median and westbound lanes of traffic and then crashed into a ditch embankment.
-- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mom gets $250,000 in jail death of son
JOPLIN, Mo. -- The mother of a man who died in a southwest Missouri jail after being strapped in a restraint chair for several hours has settled her lawsuit against Jasper County and other defendants.
An attorney for Jane Brown of Joplin says she received $250,000 in her lawsuit over the December 2012 death of her son, Richard Watson, 43, in the Jasper County jail. Attorney Brandon Potter said Tuesday that the rest of the settlement is confidential.
The Joplin Globe reported Watson suffered from physical and psychological problems. The lawsuit alleged Watson was placed in an emergency restraint chair after injuring his head in a fall and was left for at least 21 hours without proper food, water or his medications.
-- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Officer's fatal shots deemed justified
NORMAN, Okla. -- A Norman police officer has been cleared in the shooting death of a 34-year-old man who approached the officer with a hammer.
In a letter sent this week to the Norman Police Department, Cleveland County District Attorney Greg Mashburn said his office's review of the Dec. 14 shooting determined the use of force was "justified and appropriate under the law."
Police said officer Heather Glazier shot Martin Sanchez-Juarez after she responded to a call and came across the man carrying a hammer. Police said Sanchez-Juarez continued to advance toward the officer and refused her orders to drop the hammer. They said he smashed the patrol car's mirror with the hammer before Glazier shot him three times.
Police said Sanchez-Juarez died six days after the shooting.
-- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Study says flights to Texas feasible
STILLWATER, Okla. -- A study indicates that a north central Oklahoma community could support daily commercial airline flights from its airport to the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
The Journal Record reported the study by the city of Stillwater is the latest in a three-year effort to obtain commercial air service at the Stillwater Regional Airport.
A Stillwater Chamber of Commerce official says the goal is to begin providing jet service for 50 passengers at the airport.
Stillwater received a nearly $450,000 grant in September from the federal transportation department to establish commercial air service. The director of the Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission says the money allows Stillwater city and civic leaders to compete for commercial air service that might otherwise be unobtainable.
-- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Suspect in slaying jailed in Oklahoma
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Oklahoma City police said they've arrested a 48-year-old man on a first-degree murder complaint in the shooting death of a man on the city's south side.
The man was being held Wednesday without bail in the Oklahoma County jail, but formal charges have not been filed.
Police responding to a welfare call late Monday night discovered the body of Miguel Espinoza, 24, shot to death inside a car in the parking lot of a business.
-- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NW News on 01/01/2015