Man Arrested in Shooting Near School

(LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) -- Police arrested a 23-year-old man in connection with a shooting at the Arkansas School for the Deaf and Blind over the weekend.

Officials say Barry Campbell was arrested minutes after a shooting near football fields at the school where children were playing. The fields were rented for the children, who are not students at the school, to play football. Police say Campbell shot Robert Redmon, 35, in an altercation that stemmed from a person being asked to park away from the fields. Redmon was treated at a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries. Details on the incident still remain unclear.

Campbell is charged with first degree battery and one felony count of criminal mischief.

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Warrant Issued in 2002 Double Homicide

(CONWAY, Ark.) -- On Friday, Conway Police issued a warrant for the arrest of a man currently being held in a Nevada jail.

Officials say Richard Conte is wanted in the deaths of businessman Carter Elliot, 48, and his employee Timothy Robinson, 25, in May 2002.

The former doctor is scheduled to be released on Sunday after serving nine of 15 years at Northern Nevada Correctional Center for drugging and kidnapping his ex-wife Lark Gathright-Elliott from her Salt Lake City home in June 2002.  She was also the ex-wife of one of the murder victims, Carter Elliot.

Conte will be held on two counts of capital murder in the deaths of Elliot and Robinson.

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University of Arkansas Enrollment at Record High

(LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) -- University of Arkansas’ enrollment figures released Friday reached a record high, Arkansas Online reports.

Preliminary enrollment figures revealed that 23,153 students enrolled in the fall semester -- 1,700 more students than this time last year.

Freshman make up 4,400 of the students.

The university is currently planning to add new classrooms, and a new auditorium is slated to open in fall 2012.

While Friday’s figures are preliminary, final numbers will be available in October.

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Special Justice Appointed in Death Penalty Case

(LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) -- Governor Mike Beebe has appointed a special justice to the Arkansas Supreme Court to hear the death penalty case involving Timothy Lamont Howard.

Howard was convicted of murdering Brian and Shannon Day in Little River County in 1997.

Beebe has appointed Ronald Hope of Little Rock to hear the case, after Justice Donald Corbin disqualified himself from the case.

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Man Arrested for over 24 Burglary, Theft Incidents

(LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) -- A 28-year-old man has been arrested on over two dozen burglary charges.

Steven Michael Berkhahn, 28, is being held at the Baxter County Detention Center for several residential burglary, breaking or entering and theft of property charges, according to ABC affiliate KATV.

Berkhahn reportedly confessed to the incidents in an interrogation with Baxter County Sheriff's Office deputies.

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