Ginger Shiras of the Harrison Daily Times reports that Tim McKinney, the mayor of Berryville, will spend 39 days in the county jail on a previous suspended sentence from an earlier DWI/marijuana infraction. But under a plea bargain on a second set of similar charges, it appears he will get to hang onto his mayoral post.

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