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Posted: Jan 14, 2010 / 06:25 PM CST / Updated: Sep 3, 2015 / 09:35 PM CDT

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Blue-green algae advisory lifted at Lake Overcup

Jul 4, 2020

MORRILTON, Ark. (News release) — A health advisory warning against swimming in and allowing pets and livestock to drink from Lake Overcup has been lifted, according to biologists with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.

The harmful algae bloom advisory was issued in late May after tests in some portions of the lake showed high levels of cyanotoxins. Recent tests confirmed this toxin level has dissipated and the advisory has been lifted.

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North Carolina interstate shut down after 5 killed, 4 injured in tragic crash

Jul 4, 2020

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (FOX 46 CHARLOTTE)- Five people are dead and four others were injured in a tragic four-vehicle crash in northwest Charlotte.

I-485 inner was closed for hours Friday night while police, fire and Medic work to clear the scene near Oakdale Road and W.T Harris Boulevard.

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AGFC announces director of new northwest Arkansas nature center

Jul 4, 2020

SPRINGDALE, Ark. (News release) — Exhibits are under construction and the landscaping is still underway, but when the J.B. and Johnelle Hunt Family Ozark Highlands Nature Center opens this fall, it will already have 25 years of experience manning the helm. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission recently announced Schelly Corry, a transplant from Alabama with an extensive career in education and exhibit planning and management, to lead the team at the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s newest nature center in Springdale.

Corry joins the AGFC from her most recent role as vice president of the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where she oversaw teams that ran everything from museum operations and exhibits to membership, volunteers and food service. Before that, she led the charge in planning, designing and building the $32 million, 62,000 square-foot Cook Museum of Natural Science in Decatur, Alabama, and served as executive director of that museum for six years.

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