ORLANDO – This Independence Day, a record-breaking 44.2 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more away from home, taking to the nation’s roads, skies, rails and waterways to honor the red, white and blue. With 1.25 million more travelers than last year, 2017 will be marked as the most traveled Independence Day holiday weekend ever.

The Batesville Police Department is asking for the public’s help.

Police are currently working the theft of a 2015 Ranger bass boat, red and silver flake in color. It has a 90 hp Evinrude motor with big arm tiller pearl white in color.

The Conway Police Department along with an Alcoholic Beverage Control Board agent conducted alcohol compliance checks at 25 businesses across Conway last Thursday. The officers went out in two groups using a 19 year old informant and two 18 year old informants.

SPRINGDALE (AP) – An Arkansas prison escapee who had been on the run for more than three decades has been recaptured.

The state Department of Corrections says 60-year-old Steven Dishman was arrested Sunday at a home in Springdale in northwest Arkansas by local law enforcement and state troopers. The department initially spelled Dishman’s first name as Stephen.

LITTLE ROCK (AP) – Qualifying patients in Arkansas will soon be able to apply for medical marijuana patient cards, but concerns over unauthorized people obtaining the drug still linger.

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court is entering its final week of work before a long summer hiatus. Action is expected on the Trump administration’s travel ban and a decision is due in a separation of church and state case that arises from a Missouri church playground.

Conway City Council meets in regular session tomorrow.

On the Agenda, resolutions for tax liens on a couple of properties, approving the nomination of Michael Yoder for a second term on the Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Board.