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3 teenagers escape by running from juvenile center
HARRISBURG — Three teenagers have escaped from a juvenile detention center in northeast Arkansas.
The three 16-year-olds were in the custody of the Arkansas Department of Humans Services Division of Youth Services when they ran from the center in Harrisburg on Thursday.
DHS says in a news release that the three were walking with
a group of other youth and a staff member to a class when they ran into nearby woods shortly before noon. DHS says only that the three were being held for felony crimes.
DHS says the center is not fenced, and youth are allowed to walk the campus while under supervision.
Body in wildlife refuge is man missing since 2014
TURRELL — Authorities say a body found in an east Arkansas wildlife refuge is that of a man missing for nearly three years.
Crittenden County Sheriff’s Chief Todd Grooms told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that the body is that of Blake Wood of the Marion area, who was 23 when he disappeared in August
2014.
The body was found March
22 in the Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge near Turrell. Grooms said identification was made using dental records, but a cause of death has not been determined.
Authorities say Woods disappeared after getting out of a friend’s vehicle and running into a wooded area.
Police: Son dead, father wounded in stabbing
CADDO VALLEY — Authorities say a stabbing at a southwest Arkansas travel center has left one person dead and his father injured.
Clark County Sheriff Jason Watson told reporters the stabbing shortly before 5 a.m. Thursday was the result of a “domestic altercation” at the Pilot Travel Center just off Interstate 30 in Caddo Valley, about 55 miles southwest of Little Rock.
The names and ages of the two have not been released.
The sheriff says no arrests have been made and that there is no danger to the public.
Authorities say the son was taken to a Hot Springs hospital where he later died and the father was taken to a Little Rock hospital in undisclosed condition for treatment.