Arkansas digest, 4-18

— 21-year-old stabbed in chest at Arkansas motel

ROGERS - Authorities in Northwest Arkansas are investigating after a 21-year-old man was found with a stab wound to his chest Monday night, reports Arkansas Online.

Rogers police spokesman Keith Foster said officers were called to a residence in the 3700 block of West Murdock Lane about 9:40 p.m.

Investigators were told the stabbing happened at the Regency 7 motel located at 3714 W. Walnut St.

The man was transported to a nearby hospital, Foster said. Police have named no suspects.

High school art teacher resigns after DWI arrest

FAYETTEVILLE - A high school art teacher in Northwest Arkansas has resigned after being arrested on a driving while intoxicated charge, a district spokesman said.

Arkansas Online states that Katherine Russell, 35, of Fayetteville was arrested around 8:30 p.m. Saturday, records show. She also faces a charge of possession of a controlled substance.

Alan Wilbourn, spokesman for the Fayetteville School District, said district officials received Russell’s resignation Tuesday morning. It was effective immediately.

Russell was released from the Washington County jail shortly after 12:20 p.m. Sunday, according to an online inmate roster.

Additional information was not immediately available from the Fayetteville Police Department.

Woman shot at in act of ‘road rage’ while in NLR

NORTH LITTLE ROCK - Police say two women were shot at in an act of road rage while traveling in North Little Rock on Thursday, according to Arkansas Online.

Around 4 p.m., an officer was called in reference to a disturbance with a weapon in the area of the Taco Bell at 3900 McCain Blvd., according to a report from the city’s Police Department.

The 27-year-old victim said she had just left Kroger and was driving east on McCain Boulevard with a 25-year-old passenger when she noticed a vehicle following close behind.

The woman then pumped her brakes in an effort to get the vehicle to back off, at which point its driver pointed a black handgun at her from a window, the report states.

Authorities said the assailant fired two shots into the air and “began to twirl or shake the handgun” in the victims’ direction.

According to the report, the 27-year-old Jacksonville resident said the driver sped up and jumped in front of her near Taco Bell on McCain Boulevard and eventually took the U.S. 67/167 exit toward Little Rock.

The women described the shooter as a black man in his 30s who had shoulder-length dreadlocks. He was reportedly traveling in a white 2007 Hyundai Sonata.

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