Childhood home of former President Bill Clinton to reopen

HOPE — The home in Hope where former President Bill Clinton spent the first four years of his life is set to reopen following a Christmas Day fire.

National Parks Service officials told reporters that volunteers and employees are unpacking boxes in an effort to have the home ready for visitors on Saturday.

The Christmas Day fire that was called arson damaged the exterior and some of the interior of the home and graffiti was found on a sidewalk and on a door of the home. Authorities did not immediately return phone calls Thursday for comment on whether any arrests had been made.

The President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site was owned by Clinton’s maternal grandparents and he lived there with his mother following his birth in Hope.

Man suffers heart attack as SWAT team searches Conway home

CONWAY — The Faulkner County sheriff says a 50-yearold man suffered an apparent heart attack and died as a SWAT team was executing a search warrant at a home in Conway.

Sheriff Matt Rice says the man and several other people were in the home when the SWAT team entered at about 6 a.m. Thursday. Rice tells the

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that the team was executing a warrant related to a drug case.

The sheriff says the man started complaining about chest pains, and emergency responders attended to him, but the man died a short time later.

Authorities have not yet released the man’s name or more details about the search warrant.

Barling city official suspended for failing to report arrest

BARLING — Barling City Administrator Mike Tanner has been suspended without pay for two weeks for failing to immediately report his arrest in Oklahoma last year for driving under the influence. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports the suspension of Tanner was announced Tuesday following a meeting by city directors.

Online court records show Tanner was arrested in March 2015 for driving under the influence, transporting a loaded firearm while under the influence and transporting a loaded firearm.

The records show Tanner pleaded no contest to DUI and transporting a loaded firearm earlier this year and was sentenced to one year probation. The transporting a loaded firearm while under the influence charge was dropped.

Tanner issued a statement saying he accepts the discipline and apologizes “for any inconvenience” he has caused.

State prison inmate hospitalized after stabbing

GRADY — An Arkansas state prison inmate was hospitalized after a stabbing at the Varner Unit in Grady.

State Department of Correction spokesman Solomon Graves told KATV that the stabbing occurred about 4:15 p.m. Wednesday during an altercation at the prison.

No names nor the wounded inmate’s condition were immediately released.

Arkansas State Police will investigate the stabbing.