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The incident took place at about 7:25 p.m. at the Delta N.E.Y.O. Hood-nic Foundation car show The shooting happened in the town of Dumas, about 85 miles southeast from the state capital of Little Rock Arkansas State Troopers were sent to Dumas following an initial report of a shooting outside a local business where the show took place Authorities said that 'as many as 10' people were wounded Investigators have since confirmed that at least one person has been killed in the shooting, according to KARK

The trial for a Nashville judge has now been postponed, and a deal could be in the works. It's just the possibility recently raised by NewsChannel 5 Investigates with Judge Gloria Dumas' lawyer. "Would you be willing to accept some sort of reprimand?" we asked. "I don't know -- I'd have to ask her," lawyer Ben Cantrell said, adding that they preferred not to go into a full-blown trial. Dumas was scheduled to face an ethics trial next month for being repeatedly late to court, as well as other alleged violations. Now, the parties have agreed to put off the...

PARIS - A five-year quest to locate the tomb of d'Artagnan -- the inspiration for Alexandre Dumas's novel The Three Musketeers -- has led to a small Dutch church where new research suggests the swashbuckling hero is buried. Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan died during the Siege of Maastricht on June 25, 1673, and, according to a leading French historian, was laid to rest only few kilometres away at Saint Peter and Paul Church in Wolder. "The trail is very precise," said Odile Bordaz, the author of several works on the musketeer. Ms. Bordaz discounted theories that d'Artagnan's body...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry wants to build a big highway through the Lone Star State. No, make that a really big highway, as in a monstrously big highway. The exact route hasn't been determined. The mega-highway would run roughly from Laredo on the Rio Grande River through the Hill Country and the Piney Woods and then through Texarkana in that tiny portion of the state that borders Arkansas. Imagine for a moment if that thoroughfare would be pointed in the other direction - from the Valley, through the South Plains and then through the heart of the Panhandle, right past...

The political and constitutional turmoil in Haiti deepened yesterday as the country's parliament ceased to function and President Jean-Bertrand Aristide began in effect to rule by decree while mass protests against him continued. With a general strike entering its fifth day, President Aristide delivered a speech at the airport in Port-au-Prince in which he failed to mention the clamour for him to step down. Amid tight security, the President then left on his private jet to attend the Summit of the Americas in Mexico. His address was dedicated to honouring the founding fathers of Haiti, which became the world's first...

Posted by Michelle PontoHelp arrives for tornado-stricken Dumas DUMAS, AR -- Help, courtesy of some generous Mid-southerners arrives in Dumas, Arkansas after a destructive tornado tore through the town three days ago. The F-3 tornado, packing winds up to 200 miles per hour, carved a 19-mile path of destruction destroying dozens of homes. There is still a lot of work to be done to get people on the road to recovery and today the residents are trying to get back to some sense of normalcy.Hundreds of volunteers have come from everywhere including the Mid-south. One of the groups is the Forrest City...

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 326 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2007 ..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON... ..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE.... ..REMARKS.. 0255 PM TORNADO DUMAS 33.88N 91.49W 02/24/2007 DESHA AR TRAINED SPOTTER RECEIVED REPORT OF CARS IN TREES NORTH OF DUMAS ON HIGHWAY 65. TIME REPORTED IS APPROXIMATE. PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 303 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2007 ..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON... ..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE.... ..REMARKS.. 0250 PM TORNADO DUMAS 33.88N 91.49W 02/24/2007 DESHA AR LAW ENFORCEMENT NUMEROUS REPORTS OF BUILDINGS DAMAGED IN...

PARIS -- The mystery of who killed Admiral Nelson is to be explained in a previously unknown novel by Alexandre Dumas, author of The Three Musketeers, discovered by a French researcher and going on sale in June, the book's publisher said on Tuesday. Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine (The knight of Saint-Hermine) is a classic Dumas adventure story about the start of the Napoleonic empire and includes a swashbuckling account of the battle of Trafalgar, according to Jean-Pierre Sicre of Phebus press. "The description of Trafalgar is indescribably brilliant. And in it we learn that it is the hero of the...

Vigilantes not wanted: Locals plan protest, may form own patrols to counter Tombstone-based group BY LOUIE VILLLALOBOS, Staff Writer Sep 15, 2003 SAN LUIS, Ariz. — A protest, a resolution, and if all else fails, a patrol group of their own. Those are some of the ideas tossed around Thursday night by a group of 25 local residents and city leaders who said they are stepping up their efforts to combat the Tombstone-based citizens' patrol group. "We have to understand that these vigilantes are coming," Fernie Quiroz said during Thursday's meeting, which took place in a San Luis, Ariz., restaurant....

Vigilantes plead guilty, released BY LOUIE VILLALOBOS, Staff Writer Aug 21, 2003 The two men accused of detaining six illegal immigrants at gunpoint were released from jail on Wednesday, after each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit unlawful imprisonment, said Yuma County Attorney Patricia Orozco. Orozco said Matthew Hoffman, 23, and Alexander Dumas, 26, were ordered released by Yuma County Superior Court Judge Andrew Gould during a Wednesday hearing and are scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 19. As a result of the pleas, Orozco said the remaining charges each man was facing were dropped. Each had...

Accused in border incident offered legal aid BY LOUIE VILLALOBOS Aug 15, 2003 As the case against two men accused of unlawfully detaining six illegal immigrants progresses through the Yuma County court system, a California organization is joining a Missouri group in offering legal aid to the pair. Howard Garber, director of the California-based American Civil Responsibilities Union, told The Sun he is planning to meet with his team of lawyers on Monday to decide how his organization is going to help Matthew Hoffman, 23, and Alexander Dumas, 26, defend themselves. Each faces six counts of aggravated assault, five counts...

A JUDICIAL crusade against political sleaze in France came to an abrupt halt yesterday when Roland Dumas, the former Foreign Minister, won his appeal against a conviction for corruption in connection with the oil group, Elf Aquitaine. M Dumas, a close ally of François Mitterrand who went on to become head of the country’s highest legal institution, the Constitutional Council, was acquitted by the Paris Appeal Court. “I am happy that justice has been done,” said M Dumas, 80, after the judgment quashed a lower court ruling that he should serve six months in prison. His lawyer, Jean-René Farthouat, denounced...

As a military honor guardsman, Patrick Cubbage had a simple message to the families of deceased veterans at graveside services. "God bless you and this family, and God bless the United States of America," he would say as he presented a folded flag to them. Because of that, Cubbage was fired in October from his job at the Brig. Gen. William C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Burlington County, near McGuire Air Force Base. He breached cemetery protocol, his supervisor said, by deviating from the script. "No family member ever objected," Cubbage, 54, a Vietnam combat veteran, retired Philadelphia police...

The remains of Alexandre Dumas, author of The Three Musketeers, began their stately passage to Paris yesterday, where tomorrow they will be placed in the Pantheon beside those of Victor Hugo and Emile Zola.