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Teen accused in Hot Springs stabbing death

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) - Police in Hot Springs have arrested an 18-year-old male in the stabbing death of his mother's fiancé.

Authorities say Dillon Wayne Smith was arrested Tuesday afternoon on a second-degree murder charge.

The Sentinel-Record reports that 31-year-old Truman A. Bowers was pronounced dead at the scene. First responders found him on the front steps of Smith's mother's residence. An affidavit says Bowers was stabbed in the upper left chest.

Smith had been held on $10,000 bond in the Garland County Jail but he was not listed on the online jail roster Wednesday morning.

Smith has a May 14 court appearance set in Garland County District Court. It was unclear whether he has legal representation.

Police arrested Smith at the scene without incident. His mother called police after the stabbing.

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2 shot in Hot Springs home invasion

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (KTHV) - Hot Spring police are investigating an apparent home invasion in their city.

Just after midnight May 1, the department got a shooting call at a home on Illinois Street. Officers found two people inside the home shot.

Police say unknown suspects forced their way into the house before the shooting.

Both victims were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Detectives are investigating this incident.

(Source: Hot Springs Police Dept.)

Al Capone sign returned to museum

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (KTHV) -- Good news out of Hot Springs. The owner of the Gangster Museum says a stolen sign has been returned.

Owner Robert Raines tells THV 11 News that someone was in the museum parking lot waiting for him to arrive so he could return the sign in person.

The Al Capone sign was stolen April 29 from the front of the Gangster Museum.

Surveillance video shows a group of four young men walking down Central Avenue. Two of them turn around as one walked to the corner of the building, while the other picked up the Al Capone sign sitting in front of The Gangster Museum and took off running.

Raines told us Monday that he didn't want to start a police record for the kids, he just wanted the sign back.

Thieves caught on tape stealing Capone sign from Gangster Museum

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (KTHV) -- Police are looking for the people who stole an Al Capone sign from the Hot Springs Gangster Museum.

Surveillance video shows a group of four young men walking down Central Avenue. Two of them turn around as one walked to the corner of the building, while the other picked up the Al Capone sign sitting in front of The Gangster Museum and took off running.

"It usually comes in every night. It was accidentally left out," said Executive Director Robert Raines. 

There is more than $500 invested in the sign, and the director of The Gangster Museum wants it back because of its historical value.

"We don't necessarily want to start a police record for these kids," he continued. "We just want them to bring the sign back, that's all."

If the sign is not returned, it could go on their record as a felony.

ASMSA offering Science Café lectures

From Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts:

HOT SPRINGS - The Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts will offer a Science Café lecture series in May beginning this week.

The Science Café lecture series will feature ASMSA Science Department faculty members discussing various topics, including nuclear power, Hot Springs' thermal waters, neurobiology and cancer. The lectures will be held each week on Friday. The first lecture, "Radiation and Nuclear Power: Myths and Facts" by Dr. Brian Monson, will be held at 7 p.m. Friday in the new library in ASMSA's Student Center. Monson is a physics instructor and serves as the Science Department chair at ASMSA.

Man arrested for Hot Springs stabbing murder

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (KTHV) - A Hot Springs man is under arrest for allegedly stabbing another man to death.

At 3 a.m. Tuesday, Hot Springs police officers responded to a home on Highland Park about a stabbing.

When officers got there they found Truman Bowers dead on the front steps of the home. The suspect, Dillon Smith, was taken into custody.

Smith is being held at the Garland County Detention Center and charged with second degree murder.

(Source: Hot Springs Police Dept.)

LRFW 5 Model Search is this weekend!

LRFW 5 Model Search is this weekend!

By: Adeeja Anderson

Hopeful models are preparing this week for auditions of the fifth annual Little Rock Fashion Week (LRFW), a weeklong of high fashion, entertainment and network events scheduled in mid-July.

The model search will be held May 4 and May 5 at the Holiday Inn Presidential Hotel, located at 600 Interstate 30, Little Rock, Ark., 72202 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Male and female models of all ages and sizes are welcomed. They are required to wear a plain black t-shirt with no logos and wear jeans pants. Females need to bring high heel shoes, and no make-up and accessories are allowed. Models will be deducted points for not following instructions.

Results of models selected will be posted on www.littlerockfashionweek.com/models.php by May 13. If selected, models’ rehearsal is scheduled for June 2 and July 14 at Horace Mann Arts and Science Magnet School, located 1000 East Roosevelt Rd, Little Rock, Ark. 72206, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.