Baxter Bulletin from Mountain Home, Arkansas • Page A10

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A two-person legal team from Washington, and Fitchburg, Massachusetts, respectively, Monica L. Miller and David A. Niose, as well as a private Little Rock attorney, J.G. Schulze, served as the attorneys in the case. According to the brief filed in November, the plaintiffs requested $70,300.01, which included hourly rates charged by each attorney and out-of- pocket costs totaling 2,503.76.

Attorneys ogged more than 228 hours of work for the case. I order, Brooks ound the plaintiff hourly rates to be high but for he work that was done. The court reconsidered otal hours submitted by each attorney and counted those hours that original and indepedent work product for which they should receive full credit and It also found claimed $2,500 costs to be and The attorney, Jason E. Owens of Rainwater, Holt Sexton, P.A., argued in December hat the requested fees of in a case that pre- ented essentially one laim, where only four depositions were taken, here no trial was held, here the Plaintiff prevailed against only 1of 2 efendants and where the Plaintiffs recovered only injunctive and nominal in the amount of $1. Fees Continued from Page 1A Applications can be printed from the Ozark Opportunities website: www.ozarkopp.orgunder All applicants for emer- ency assistance will be required to furnish proof income for all house- old members for the pre- ious month.

A I.D. will be required or identification purposes of the person making he application. Other information may be requested at the time of application, including proof of re- ources. hough its main office i located in Boone County, zark Opportunities also serves Baxter, Marion, Newton, Searcy and Van uren counties. In Baxter County, people seeking assistance are a sked to call Susan on hursdays from at (870) 435-7888 to make a appointment to apply.

The Baxter County office is located at 201Combs in Cotter. The office i open to the public on ondays from 8 a.m. to 1 1:30 a.m. and 1p.m. to 4 In Marion County, people seeking assistance are a sked to call Lon on Thursdays from at (870) 449-6250 to make an app ointment to apply.

The arion County office is located at 354 US Highway 6 2 East in Yellville. The office is open to the public on Wednesdays from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 1p.m. to 4 zark Opportunities ays its mission is to part- er with organizations, families and individuals to provide services and em- owerment opportunities for those with limited means to improve their uality of life.

Power Continued from Page 1A 2016 Income Eligibility Guidelines The following guidelines provided by Ozark Opportunities, Inc. are broken down by family size and monthly income. The guidelines are used to determine eligibility in the Winter Home Energy Assistance Program. Family of one, monthly income: $1,515 amily of two, monthly income: $1,981 Family of three, monthly income: $2,447 Family of four, monthly income: $2,913 Family of five, monthly income: $3,379 amily of six, monthly income: $3,845 Family of seven, monthly income: $3,933 Family of eight, monthly income: $4,020 amily of nine, monthly income: $4,107 Family of 10, monthly income: $4,195 There was an additional suspect One of those who believes Parks did not act alone is former Lt. Nevin Barnes of the Mountain Home Police Department who has retired since trial.

Barnes was the lead investigator in the illstein murder case. Gary Parks killed Dr. Barnes told he Bulletin immediately following the plea agreement. the investigation, we uncovered some facts that indicate someone may have been involved in the planning of the murder. looking at a single suspect at this time.

We anticipate others, though that could change if new information came to Barnes and an investi- ator with the Arkansas State Police went to the Varner Unit during the summer of 2013 and interviewed Parks, looking for the cooperation Parks promised to give during his sentencing. Barnes said Parks was ot cooperative during that interview, and that no other interview has been conducted. arnes said he report- the results of the inter- iew to Kincade, the prosecutor in the case. still working on Kincade said in arly 2014, regarding gain- i ng cooperation from not closed. I want to talk much beyond that.

There is, in our opinion, potential to bring charges against others in his incade retired at the nd of 2014. No more attempts were made to interview Parks during tenure. Mountain ome attorney David Eth- edge took over as Baxter ounty Prosecuting Attorney. No attempts to interview Parks have been made during ime as prosecut- i ng attor- ey. oun- tain Home police and the Arkansas State Police continue to monitor the case, according to Carry Manuel, chief of the Mountain Home Police Department.

Manuel said an ASP investigator had een in contact with his de- artment regarding pot entially interviewing arks again. have been in contact with the Arkansas State Police and been in contact with the Manuel said last week about the case. other questions need to be addressed to the The prosecutor did not immediately return a call asking for comment regarding the Parks case. arks remains in the Varner Unit of the Arkansas Department of Corrections. His electronic records indicate he is not eligible for parole until 2023, leaving authorities plenty of time to interview him re- arding a potential accomplice.

Another murder in arks family history The unnamed suspect a uthorities believe may have helped plan death could have ties to a murder that oc- urred in Little Rock almost 20 years ago. ary biological father, Luther Gerald Parks, was murdered Sept. 26, 1993. Jerry Parks was driving on Chenal Parkway on he outskirts of Little Rock when another vehicle ulled up beside him. Awitness stated he heard gunshots, and then the second vehicle pulled a way at a high rate of speed, according to a po- ice report.

Several 9mm shell cas- ings were found at the scene, Barnes said, noting the murder has never een solved, and the Little Rock Police Department i nvestigation into the rime remains open. We have been in contact with Little Rock Police as recently as last Barnes said in January, 2014. think they consider the same person apotential suspect in that case as we consider an additional suspect in the Millstein erry Parks owned a sec urity business that pro- ided protection for the ampaign headquarters of Bill Clinton when he first ran for president. After Jerry death, his wife, Lois Jane Parks, who later married Dr. David Millstein, inherited a significant amount of money along with a business, according to Barnes.

After death, Lois Jane Parks Millstein received $500,000 from a ife insurance policy taken out on Millstein, according to court documents. Investigator not totally satisfied Barnes spent almost seven years working on the Millstein murder case, a nd while he said he was relieved to see Parks go to prison, he was not entirely satisfied with the out- ome. Personally, I eel it was Barnes said at the time Parks was sentenced. I also understand hy the prosecutor did what he did. I respect him a nd stand with Parks will have to serve a total of 15 years before he is eligible for parole, Kincade said at the time.

Parks served a little ore than three years in the Baxter County jail a waiting trial. His electronic DOC records indicate he will be eligible for parole beginning on Dec ember 21, 2023, 10 years and eight months after he as found guilty of first- degree murder. Plea Continued from Page 1A Dr. David Millstein MILTON, Fla. A week- ong search for a Missouri ouple wanted in a series of robberies and abductions across the South ended with one suspect dead and the other wounded Friday, after authorities say they chased the pair through a rural neighborhood and exchanged gunfire with them in Panhandle.

Blake Fitzgerald died and Brittany Nicole Harper was at a hospital under uard with a wounded leg, Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan said at a news conference. She faces charges including home invasion, robbery, false imprisonment and grand theft auto, but no court appearances are cheduled, Morgan said. The sheriff said the chase began shortly after reports of an armed robbery at a Famous Footwear store in Pensacola at Thursday. Witness said the man held a gun on the clerk while the woman shopped, accord- i ng to Morgan. A uthorities began chas- i ng the couple, following hem to nearby Pensacola Beach, before zigging and zagging though Pensacola and even going onto Interstate 10 a couple of times, Morgan said.

At one point, authorities lost sight of the pair for a couple of hours, Morgan said. During that time, they held a Pensacola family hostage and eventually fled in the red pickup truck, he said. I was Friday when the vehicle was spotted on I-10, Morgan said. Deputies followed the truck as it exited and went down a rural road. Morgan said his deputies had a standoff with the couple for about 15 min- tes before Fitzgerald got out of the truck and appeared to be heading into a home that was occupied near the small town of Milton.

Gunfire erupted, and authorities say Fitzgerald was killed. Authorities had linked Fitzgerald and Harper to a eries of crimes in Ala- ama and Georgia, saying he offenses fit a similar attern: People are robbed, kidnapped and let go unharmed, usually after a vehicle is stolen. The sheriff said found no ties to the area for Fitzgerald and Harper but that he heard they were heading to Panama City to get married. Authorities said the couple had been on the run since January. Police in Joplin, Missouri, had anted to interview the two about a Jan.22 break- in in which guns were stolen from a home.

The couple are also suspected in two Florida in Walnut Hill and Destin on Wednesday, U.S. Marshals spokesman Martin eely said. One crime-spree suspect dead, other wounded Weeklong search for Missouri pair ends in gunfire MELISSA NELSON-GABRIEL ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBIA, Mo. University of Missouri stud ents pointedly pressed the governing board Friday for faster diversity reforms at the Col umbia campus, which is still grappling with racial nrest three months since protests led to departures of two top administrators. The four students hree black and one white times questioned the oard of resolve in addressing race issues, compounding pressures on the board also under fire from frustrated tate lawmakers as the oard handles business down three members and without any of color.

the end of the day you answer to us, because ur tuition pays for elcea Barnes, a black un- dergraduate student who i dentifies herself as queer, told the curators during he last day of their two- day meeting, which was i nterrupted twice Thursday by protesters. get the big bucks to change this. You imothy Love, a black graduate student, pushed or a requirement that undergraduates take at least one comprehensive class about race and gender and hat it deals with science of And he riticized the absence of diversity on the board that runs the four-campus system, given last resignations of the only two lack curators. If there are no policies in place after all these months, we have a right to be Love said. also help that all of ou are white.

That sends a signal that a gulf between he curators offered no promises but indicated hey understood the impatience. At every institution comes a time when it has to said curator David Steele, a Rolla attor- ey. process is great, but all that really matters i what you get at the The November protests were spurred by what activists said was ad- indifference to racial issues, leading to he resignations of the system president and the Columbia chancellor. The fallout also has ome from the Rep ublican-led Legislature. GOP leaders have said they have no interest in filling the curator vacancies before next year, hen Democratic Gov.

ay Nixon is out of office. Black students seek swifter ace reforms at Missouri JIM SUHR ASSOCIATED PRESS.