Baby powder that came in contact with a space heater was determined to be the cause of a house fire Wednesday near the corner of 15th Street and High Avenue in Bremerton. The fire was reported at about 2:10 p.m. Passersby Gaylord and Carol Jackson saw flames coming from the second floor of the house.
- PUB DATE: 3/31/2017 12:00:35 AM - SOURCE: KING-TV NBC 5

A firefighter from the Riverview Fire Protection District was shot in Ferguson Thursday evening. Shots rang out in the 1500 block of Norlakes Drive in Ferguson around 7:30 p.m., firefighters said. The fire crews had just put out an electrical fire at the Norlake Apartment Complex when a firefighter said it felt like his head was burning.
- PUB DATE: 3/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KMOV-TV CBS 4 St. Louis

After pleading guilty to manslaughter in the shooting death of a volunteer firefighter who was coming to his assistance, a North Little Rock man apologized to the victim's family. Mark Eugene Pruitt, 49, pleaded guilty Thursday morning in Pulaski County Circuit Judge Barry Sims’ courtroom Thursday morning.
- PUB DATE: 3/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette & Arkansas Online