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Report: Child died of ‘excessive heat’ was caused by excessive heat. The crime lab will not release an official cause of death until toxicology reports are concluded, sometime in the next few weeks,” police Cpl. McCrary Means said in a news release Monday afternoon. Means said the criminal investigation is continuing in the case as the department interviews potential witnesses, attempts to locate any video surveillance, and reviews 911 calls and police dash-camera video and audio. “We can confirm that the reporting person that called 911 has been iden-

STEVEN MROSS, DON THOMASON AND DAVID SHOWERS The Sentinel-Record

A preliminary investigation shows that the 18-month-old son of Division 2 Garland County Circuit Court Judge Wade Naramore died as the result of “excessive heat” on Friday, after being left unattended in a “hot car” for an undetermined amount of time, the Hot Springs Police Department said Monday. “As of noon today, the Arkansas State Crime Lab has unofficially ruled this death

tified as Wade Naramore, the child’s father. Additionally, both Mr. Naramore and his wife, along with numerous friends and family members, voluntarily came to the police department and were interviewed by detectives,” the release said. After the questioning, Naramore was released pending the ongoing investigation, he said. “The police department has been in continual consultation with the Garland County prosecutor’s office since this in-

Safety needed with rising temps CAITLIN LAFARLETTE The Sentinel-Record

Heat indexes for the majority of the state are expected to climb above 100 degrees throughout the week, creating dangerous conditions for anyone left in a vehicle. According to the National Weather Service’s website, temperatures inside enclosed vehicles can rise as much as 30 to 35 degrees in a half-hour. The site also states small children can suffer heatstroke when left in conditions such as these because

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Governor announces $7.4 million for prisons

Big Al continues to elude anglers BETH BRIGHT

BETH BRIGHT

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Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced to the Arkansas Sheriffs’ Association Monday his plans to ask the Legislature to approve $7.4 million to open up more prison beds. The announcement came as Hutchinson spoke at the association’s luncheon at the Arlington Resort Hotel & Spa on the partnership he has had with Arkansas’ sheriffs since taking office in January. “Today I’m announcing that I’ll be asking the General Assembly to approve the use of discretionary funds and rainy day funds of $7.4 million to open up 200 more prison beds within the next 16 months,” he said. “So I’m asking for your support through your legislative delegations for support for that, that should continue to give us hope and to resolve the problem of the long term.” Hutchinson said the association said “loud

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The launch of a new website for the Garland County Sheriff’s Department over the weekend meant taking its predecessor offline, Sheriff Mike McCormick said Monday, making popular features such as the detention center’s online inmate roster temporarily inaccessible to the public. McCormick said the launch required the old website to be taken down early Friday. The new website, http://

The $86,000 Hot Springs Fishing Challenge ends at 5 p.m. Friday, and Visit Hot Springs has released its first-ever mug shot of the $10,000 grand prize fish, named Big Al IV. Over the challenge’s fouryear history, Big Al has yet to be reeled in. “We thought we’d give the fishing public as much assistance as possible in an effort of bring Big Al IV to shore,” Steve Arrison, CEO of Visit Hot Springs, said in a news release. “No one has ever laid a hook on Al, and some people have expressed some doubt as to his actual existence. So, we are not only releasing a mug shot of Big Al, but we also are revealing his species and the last spot where he was seen.” The elusive fish is a white bass, tagged No. 64, that was released into Lake Hamilton on April 30. Arrison said he was last seen “near the dock off Sammie Cove on the Main Channel of Lake Hamilton.” “We ask for the public’s help in bringing this fugitive in,” he said. As of Monday, 17 fish had been caught and a total of $22,000 in prize money awarded — a record in the history of the event. According to Chrissy Egleston, director of marketing for Visit Hot Springs, 2015 has proved “very exciting” for the challenge. “Of course we had one more fish caught than last year’s total of 16, but this is the most money we’ve paid out,” she said. “Last year, our first $5,000 fish was caught and this year, we had two of them caught — one on each lake.” Egleston said it’s the stories that make the challenge so fun, and 2015 was no exception. “Where we had the flooding that gave us a couple of weeks where no one caught anything, I think the coolest story we heard this year was the man that caught a fish in the Caddo River, 32 miles away from where it was released,” she said. In 2014, the challenge awarded $16,500 of $75,000. In 2013, $9,500 was paid out and $10,250 was paid in 2012. This was the first year that bonus $1,000 fish were released each Tuesday and their locations released to the public — only one of the bonus fish was caught. Egleston said that, after the challenge concludes, they will review the numbers and determine what worked and didn’t this year, but that overall the results of 2015 were positive. According to Arrison, the fishing challenges “have generated a wealth of positive publicity about the great fishing found on our lakes.”

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SHERIFF’S WELCOME: Gov. Asa Hutchinson, left, listens as Garland County Sheriff Mike McCormick welcomes

members of the Arkansas Sheriffs’ Association to Hot Springs Monday at the Arlington Resort Hotel & Spa. Hutchinson was the speaker at the luncheon.

YMCA recipient of AED DON THOMASON The Sentinel-Record

A new piece of equipment that was donated Monday to the Hot Springs Family YMCA is one that CEO Pete Davin said he hopes will never be used. The new equipment, an Automated External Defibrillator, replaces one the YMCA had for a number of years for which parts were no longer available. “The one we had, we were no longer able to get parts for it, so we spoke to a board member who has contacts with National Park Medical Center and local physicians and he said he’d take care of it. He contacted NPMC and Hot Springs Cardiology Associates became involved, and we now have the new AED in our wellness center mounted on a wall,” Davin said.

He said many of the people who visit the YMCA take exercise classes, or work out on the treadmills, bicycles, and stair climbers, so “we just figured we needed to have this just in case.” “NPMC is proud to partner with Hot Springs Cardiology Associates to provide a new AED to the Hot Springs Family YMCA. As an area health care leader, our goal is to maintain the health of our patients as well as our community. Since one of the YMCA’s goals is to ‘Build Healthy Communities,’ it only makes sense that we partner in that effort,” said Mandy Golleher, NPMC’s director of communications and marketing. She said Monday’s donation “is The Sentinel-Record/Richard Rasmussen only a small part of that partnership.” Cindy Draper, NPMC’s director AED DONATED: Cindy Draper, National Park Medical Center’s director of educaof education and cardiac rehabilita- tion and cardiac rehabilitation, teaches a training session Monday for Hot Springs tion, provided training on using the Family YMCA employees on the use of a new Automated External Defibrillator donated by NPMC and Hot Springs Cardiology Associates. YMCA, PAGE 9A

GCSD launches updated website DAVID SHOWERS The Sentinel-Record

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