November 13, 2019
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Dehart Guilty of 2 Counts of Rape
Thursday in Polk County Circuit Court, Kevin Wayne Dehart, 53, was found guilty on charges of two counts of rape. Dehart was sentenced to 40 years in state prison on each charge with terms running consecutively. In July of 2017, Dehart was arrested during an undercover investigation by Mena police and U.S. Secret Service for soliciting minors for sex. Last year in U.S. District Court, Dehart pleaded guilty to one count of attempted online enticement of a minor. For that charge Dehart received more than 11 years in prison and 5 years of supervised release. Dehart was caught when law enforcement posed online as a 14 year old boy and exchanged messages with Dehart. In those messages Dehart said he wanted to have sex with the boy. During their online exchange Dehart made plans
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to meet the boy for a sexual encounter. Law enforcement arrested Dehart when he arrived for the planned encounter.
Political Hopefuls Vie For Local Offices Political hopefuls continue to file to run for Ouachita River School Board Zone 6 – office in Polk County. The following have Lana Philpot Cossatot River School Board Zone 2 – filed for political office: Joshua N. Tadlock Cossatot River School Board Zone 4 – JP Position 1 – JP Chris Daniel Nick Strother JP Position 2 - JP Jimmy Neugent Eagle Township Constable – Jimmy TitsJP Position 3 – JP Harold Coogan and worth and Brett Ham and Ray Haglar Levi Ellison Potter Township Constable – Eddie Price JP Position 4 – JP Margarett Elizabeth and James Richardson (Margo) Kimp JP Position 5 – JP Troy Lunsford and Rus- Gap Springs Township Constable – Gene Hendrix sell Scott Kiersey Acorn Township Constable – Kris Lyle JP Position 6 – JP Terry Terrell (Incumbent) JP Position 7 – JP Tommy Floyd Center Township Constable – Robert JP Position 8 – JP Terry Scott Hutchinson JP Position 9 – JP Basil Kesterson Fulton Township Constable – Bradley JP Position 10 – JP Mitchell Tidwell Garner JP Position 11 – JP Tawana Gilbert White Township Constable – Brad FranMena School Board Position 1 – Todd Aynes (Incumbent) and Brandyn Gortemiller chiseur Mountain Township Constable – Donald Mena School Board Position 2 – Robby Davis Hines (Incumbent) and Calvin Cummings
UA Rich Mountain to Celebrate Centennial of Women’s Right to Vote Renowned Women’s History Professor to Speak [MENA, Ark.] With election season already in full swing, it’s important to be reminded of the efforts to make possible a privilege of what 50.8% of this country’s population wasn’t always guaranteed, a woman’s right to vote. Several generations of women, lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and even practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change of the Constitution. The milestone they helped to birth, the 19th amendment, guarantees all American women the right to vote. The victory took decades of agitation and protest and sadly, few early supporters lived to see the final victory in 1920.
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UA Rich Mountain will be hosting Dr. Angela Boswell, Professor of History and Dean of the Ellis College of Arts and Sciences at Henderson State University to share with both students and the community. Earning her Ph.D. from Rice University, Boswell has published numerous articles and reviews, mainly about Southern women’s roles in history. She has edited a couple of volumes on the history of Southern women, a subject, she says, that’s still relatively untapped. “I’m not interested in the famous women,” she says. “I have difficulty naming the most important ones. I’m much more interested in what regular VOTE CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
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