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BEAVER LAKE, Ark. (AP) - Authorities are investigating the death of a 19-year-old man on Beaver Lake at Horseshoe Bend in northwestern Arkansas. Arkansas Game and Fish Commission spokesman Keith Stephens says the man had been riding an inner tube before his death Sunday - but it isn't known if he died of natural causes or in an accident. The man's name has not been released.

LAKE OZARK, Mo. - Police in Lake Ozark are searching for a boater today. A man was last seen in or around his boat at the Ozark Yacht Club on Saturday, according to authorities. Lake Ozark police and troopers from the Missouri State Highway Patrol say they're searching the lake and surrounding areas, trying to find the missing man.

Authorities in St. Louis are looking for a five year old heart patient whose father took him without permission this evening.     Saint Louis Children's Hospital officials say Jeffery Stone took his son, Porter, to a car after the boy was discharged. Porter stone is awaiting a heart transplant. Police say Stone has legal custody of Porter but they issued an alert because of the unusual circumstances. Police say Porter Stone is 46 inches tall and weighs 44 pounds. Jeffery Stone is 6 feet 6 inches tall, weighs 230 pounds and has a shaved head.

EUREKA SPRINGS, Arkansas -- The Carroll County, Arkansas sheriff's office is investigating the death of a Eureka Springs, Arkansas man reported missing a week ago. An Arkansas game and fish officer found the body of William Stimes at a camp site along the Kings River late Monday night. Authorities say his girlfriend reported the 42 year old missing last Friday. The state coroner is conducting an autopsy.

Phelps County authorities say they've put an end to a major indoor drug operation. Authorities from three agencies say they took part in an investigation that led them to a residence in rural Saint James. There, they say they found a large, highly sophisticated marijuana operation going on. Prosecutors have charged Daniel Hays with production and possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute.  He's free from jail after posting a 50-thousand dollar bond.

STONE COUNTY, Ar.--A three year old boy from Onia, Arkansas is listed as "Missing Endangered" on the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children 's website. Onia is just more than an hour southwest of Harrison. Landen Trammel was last seen at his home Tuesday morning. He was only wearing white underwear at the time. Landen weighs 29 lbs. and is three feet tall. He has blonde hair and blue eyes. The Baxter County, Arkansas Sheriff's Office is helping with the search.

The manhunt for a suspected murderer in Henry County is over. This is an update to a story we brought you Monday night on KSPR News at 10. Authorities say Lonny Mays turned himself in around 11 a-m at the Henry County Sheriff's Office. The 67-year-old was accompanied by his attorney. Authorities were searching for Mays in Henry and Benton counties after finding Rudy Romdall dead of a gunshot wound.     Authorities say Mays got into a fight with Romdall and witnesses reported hearing shots fired.

UPDATE: (8:03 a.m.) Authorities are searching for two people following a meth lab explosion at a house in Greenfield. The Dade County Sheriff says no one was at the house when emergency crews arrived, but neighbors saw two people leaving the house. As of now, no injuries are being reported in connection to the blaze, and no arrests have been made.  UPDATE: (10:37 p.m.) The Dade County sheriff tells KSPR he's seeking a search warrant following an explosion at a house in Greenfield.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Police near Hot Springs, Arkansas are investigating a shooting that left a man dead. It happened Wednesday night in eastern Garland County. The Garland County Sheriff says two people followed a man and woman to a house. An argument and fist fight started, and one of the suspects shot and killed the man. The woman was not shot, but did get hurt during the fight. The 2 suspects then drove off. Few details are known including the kind of car they were driving or the motive for the attack.

REEDS SPRING, Mo. - A Reeds Spring man is behind bars today after authorities in Stone County say he tried to injure a deputy following a domestic disturbance Tuesday. Joey L. Plunkett, 43, was taken into custody and jailed on assault charges after deputies responded to a home on Craig Street. Deputies say they tried to talk to Plunkett as he was sitting in a vehicle, but he put the vehicle in reverse and almost hit one of them. Plunkett then got his vehicle stuck against a tree, then he threw gasoline from a canister on a deputy and tried to light a lighter.

Here's an update to a story we first reported last night on KSPR News at 10.   Search teams on Bull Shoals Lake are scaling back their efforts to look for a fisherman missing since Monday afternoon. The Marion county, Arkansas sheriff identifies the missing man as 44 year old Brendon James of Lenexa, Kansas. The sheriff says James' father reported him missing after he didn't return from a fishing trip on the lake. Searchers found his boat floating along the shoreline about a mile from the family's private dock near Dugginsville.

LAKE OZARK, Mo. - Police in Lake Ozark are searching for a boater today. A man was last seen in or around his boat at the Ozark Yacht Club on Saturday, according to authorities. Lake Ozark police and troopers from the Missouri State Highway Patrol say they're searching the lake and surrounding areas, trying to find the missing man.

Authorities say a Missouri woman who disappeared for four days with her four-year-old daughter wasn't kidnapped after all.    Instead, they say she spent that time smoking synthetic pot with her ex-husband in a low-rent motel in Kansas City. Authorities feared 28-year-old Rachel Koechner had been abducted by her former husband after she sent a text message Thursday to her boyfriend saying "help me. "      She's now being held without bond but has not been charged.  

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - It was not police, but the grandfather of one-year-old Harmony Blue who found her late Saturday night, still inside the vehicle she'd been taken in eight hours earlier. Bill Lee says he found his granddaughter inside the stolen 2002 Nissan Maxima authorities spent all day searching for at an apartment complex. It is located one mile from where his four year old grandson, Jerry, was dropped off by the kidnapper, some seven hours earlier. "We had one car. Two people, one car," says the grandparent of the victims, Bill Lee. When your child is missing, every second counts.

BARRY COUNTY, Mo. - The Wheaton School District is going on lockdown after a suspected shooter walks in. It's all just a drill, but to officers, the scenario will be very real. Just like in a real school shooting officers will head in to Wheaton on schools with their guns drawn to find the shooter. The guns will not be loaded and no students will be there but officers are pulling out all the stops to make the drill seem realistic.   Around 1pm Monday, a mock 911 call will come in from the school district saying there's a shooter inside.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- A Springfield man faces sodomy charges for incidents dating back nearly five years ago. Prosecutors say Adam Grant met girls online and used force when touching one of them.  Authorities say the victim was less than 14-years-old. Grant also faces charges in an unrelated arson case, where authorities accuse him of setting hay bales on fire.    

NEAR LAMPE, Mo. -- A search warrant uncovers new evidence in the murders of a Stone County couple in late January. Authorities arrested two juveniles in the deaths of Brian Brooks, 70, and Susan Brooks, 69.  They remain in custody at the Greene County Juvenile Detention Center.  Authorities found the couple dead at their son's lake home near Lampe, Missouri January 31.  A neighbor alerted authorities that night around 5:45 p.m.  Stone County...

MT. VERNON, Mo. - Law enforcement and cattle owners will meet to talk about the recent cattle thefts in the area. Lawrence County authorities, prosecutors, and other officials have already been talking about how to prevent recent thefts. At Thursday's meeting, they'll share their findings with cattle owners. The meeting is at 7 p.m. at the University of Missouri Research Center just south of Mt. Vernon on Highway H.

EUREKA SPRINGS, Arkansas -- The Carroll County, Arkansas sheriff's office is investigating the death of a Eureka Springs, Arkansas man reported missing a week ago. An Arkansas game and fish officer found the body of William Stimes at a camp site along the Kings River late Monday night. Authorities say his girlfriend reported the 42 year old missing last Friday. The state coroner is conducting an autopsy.

HARRISON, Ark. -- This city is considering a major change to its fair housing policy.  Four new classes may be protected under a non-discrimination ordinance.  Harrison has no ordinance at all right now.   Harrison defers to the federal standards when it comes to housing.  Seven classes are covered: race, religion, age, sex, disability, familial status, and national origin.  The director of Harrison's Housing Authority wants to add four others...