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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2011
VOL. 23 NO. 235
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Outlook improves for toddler but still no arrest in beating Boy sustains serious injuries in ‘domestic-related crime’ BY ERIK EISELE THE CONWAY DAILY SUN
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Rev. Gil Healy poses with the State Champion Big Tree Blue Spruce in the yard of the First Church of Christ in North Conway Tuesday. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
Blue spruce stands tall as state champion tree BY TOM EASTMAN THE CONWAY DAILY SUN
CONWAY — North Conway is home to a state champion tree — one that looks a lot like the perfect Christmas tree at that.
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ALBANY — Investigators had hoped for a swift arrest in the severe beating of a 2-year-old child, but by Tuesday afternoon authorities were less optimistic. “We don’t have an arrest imminent at this point,” Carroll County Sheriff Chris Conley said in a phone call on Tuesday afternoon. Conley had sounded more positive both the day before and earlier Tuesday, suggesting news of an arrest would likely come anytime. He was probably too optimistic in those earlier statements, he said. “When there aren’t third-party witnesses, it’s a challenge.” While prospects of quick arrest have diminished, however, the child’s chances of survival are looking up. “He did make it through the night,” Conley said, and underwent surgery Tuesday morning. Every hour the child holds on, he said, his outlook improves. “There’s hope.” The boy was brought in to the hospital just after 9 a.m. Monday with serious injuries all over his body. Authorities are calling the beating “a domestic-related crime.” “We’re not sure what the relationship is,” Conley said, “but it is domestic-related.”
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