Month later, town labors to rebuild
The insurance had just lapsed on Jennifer Mishler's elderly mother's house when the storm hit.
Stories by Ginny LaRoe
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Charges grow for ex-music minister
A longtime music minister at a large Benton church was arrested again Wednesday, this time on 53 new counts of sexual indecency with a minor that stem from an …
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Benton man, 20, is found guilty in beating death
A man who claimed he was acting in self-defense when he struck two men in their heads with a board after a botched marijuana deal was convicted Wednesday of ca…
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Benton suit targets misuse of tax funds
A group of Benton residents is suing the city, claiming tax money collected for road improvements was illegally used to attract a Harps grocery store and to pa…
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Man gets life sentence for hiring wife's killer
A south Arkansas man was sentenced to life in prison for hiring a hit man to kill his wife when he thought she was having an affair with a black man.
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Felon: Stamps man wanted sister dead
After David Camp was jailed on accusations of hiring a hit man to kill his wife, he tried to have his elderly sister - a key witness against him - shot on her …
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Plot evolved from injury to murder, witness says
At first, Robin Camp was just supposed to be crippled, the man who admitted killing her said.
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Murder trial hears of how wife feared for her life
In the weeks before she took two shots in her head, Robin Camp was afraid for her life, testimony in her husband's murder trial Tuesday revealed.
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3 more claim abuse by former minister
At least three men have come forward saying they were sexually abused as teenagers by a longtime Baptist minister who was arrested last week after a teenager r…
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Police look at suspects in slayings
The mystery of a Hope woman's 2006 murder and her son's subsequent disappearance after being considered a suspect continues to unravel.
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Sting finds barroom code breaches
The bootyshaking hip hop was blaring and the booze was flowing when the dozen or so lawmen and a drug dog rolled in.
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Wrongly billed, state wants $300,000
A mental-health company that provides services at numerous public schools owes the state more than $300,000 in Medicaid reimbursements that were fraudulently b…
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Mena buries first of 3 tornado struck down
As the cleanup continued in storm-ravaged Mena, Rick Lobner said goodbye to his wife.
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Mena church a haven for 2nd time
For the storm survivors who filed into this battered town's Catholic church on Sunday, the old, stone building held new meaning.
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Group: Lift ban on sales of alcohol
A group pushing to legalize alcohol sales in dry Clark County is getting a head start on its campaign, hoping to thwart the kind of legal challenges that kept …
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Mena cleans up the mess
Beautifully restored Victorian homes and the centuries-old oaks that shaded them sat in heaps along block after block.
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Dawn shows Mena extent of storm's hit
When the sun rose over this remote mountain town Friday, the storm's destruction became painfully clear.
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Policeman shoots, kills farmworker armed with knife
A Pike County sheriff 's deputy shot and killed a knife-wielding man Thursday morning while checking on the man at his home, authorities said.
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Motive for slaying elusive, sheriff says
Investigators have confessions, a pile of charred evidence and a spot where they suspect they'll find the gun used to kill a Ouachita County man last week, arr…
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Sheriff looks at hiring firm to operate jail
Faced with a roughly $1 million price tag to fix up the deteriorating Miller County jail, the county is considering hiring a private security company to take o…
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Hospital's sewer-bill discount broke no law, prosecutor says
The Saline County prosecutor found no criminal wrongdoing after investigating the discount Benton gave Saline Memorial Hospital on its sewer bills.
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Ex-Alexander officer accused in sexual assault of 3 children
A former Alexander police sergeant is accused of sexually assaulting two girls and a boy during the past three years, an arrest report released Wednesday says.
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Records show official ordered sewer discount
An elected Benton official ordered a sewer discount for a Saline County hospital without seeking City Council approval, a move that the city attorney suspects …
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Sewer discount for hospital causes stink
Saline Memorial Hospital has for years received a deep discount on its sewer bills - a move that city officials believe was never authorized by the City Counci…
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Convicted of killing florist, man going to prison for life
A man who maintained he was guilty only of engaging in an illicit sexual encounter was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for brutally stabbing a well-known…
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Jury hears murder suspect on tape
James E. Clemons said he went to a flower shop one day in 1992 to buy his mother an arrangement since he was soon leaving town with a traveling carnival.
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No one helped, widow testifies at murder trial's start
Nearly 17 years after Billy Ponder was stabbed to death in his flower shop on a busy thoroughfare, his widow still can't understand why no one came to her aid …
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Report advises circuit judge's removal
A disciplinary panel has recommended that a Helena-West Helena judge be removed from the bench after finding he acted as an attorney while serving as a judge.
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$19.2 million reservoir cost seen
A proposed reservoir seen as crucial for Saline County's future water needs would cost roughly $19.2 million to build, a study has found.
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Board of Health orders trailer park closed
The state Board of Health on Wednesday ordered closed a ramshackle trailer park in Garland County where raw sewage has backed up into homes and leaked into the…
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Voters in Bryant approve tax rise to expand school
Voters on Tuesday approved a property-tax increase for more classrooms at Bryant High School and to demolish old buildings that are ill-suited for the growing …
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Benton looks at waiving fees to spur construction
The Benton City Council tonight will consider waiving building permit fees for six months in hopes of spurring construction projects.
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Warrant sweep gets under way in Benton
Fugitives beware: Benton police are coming to get you.
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Hot Springs school faces probe of billing practices
A Hot Springs special-needs school already under scrutiny by the state Department of Education is now grappling with an investigation into the Medicaid billing…
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Saline County airport readies landing system
Two years after the first plane landed at the Saline County Regional Airport, it looks like little more than a stretch of asphalt near cow pastures with a gas …
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22-year-old gets 10 years for motel sex with girl, 13
An El Dorado man who had oral sex with a 13-year-old girl after a former Magnolia teacher arranged the rendezvous was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday.
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Jail's fixes to security take time, sheriff says
New security cameras will soon be installed at the Miller County jail, and metal will be welded over windows. Broken locks on cell doors are set to be replaced…
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Death of 3-year-old boy ruled accidental drowning
A south Arkansas boy whose body was discovered floating in White Oak Lake eight days after his mother reported him missing was found to have drowned and his de…
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Lonoke County accredited to deal with severe weather
Lonoke County is better prepared to warn residents when dangerous weather is on the way after distributing warning radios and creating a community notification…
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Missing boy, 3, found dead in lake
The body of a missing south Arkansas boy was found floating in White Oak Lake on Wednesday, ending an extensive eight-day search for the 3-year-old.
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Sentence next step in school thievery
A former Pine Bluff School District employee who has admitted to stealing more than $800,000 from the district is set to be sentenced in March, authorities sai…
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Drivers queried about missing boy
A week after a Ouachita County toddler vanished from the yard behind his family's home on White Oak Lake, authorities set up a roadblock Tuesday to glean infor…
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County aims to make rail line a road
A defunct railroad line in south Saline County that cuts through a number of rural neighborhoods is moving closer to becoming a seven-mile thoroughfare.
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Hunt for missing boy, 3, intensifies, but no leads
The search for a missing boy intensified Friday, with dozens of National Guardsmen scouring the woods near White Oak Lake, a police helicopter buzzing above an…
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Missing guns spur arrest of policeman
An officer with a small Lonoke County police department was arrested Thursday after his ex-girlfriend said he took three of her guns in a breakup, records show.
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Bryant likely to table pay increases
Bryant Mayor Larry Mitchell said he will ask the City Council to postpone voting on hefty pay increases for elected officials at tonight's meeting in light of …
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Rural Ouachita County combed for boy, 3, missing since Tuesday
Authorities Wednesday continued to comb a rural area of Ouachita County for a 3-year-old boy who disappeared from his backyard near White Oak Lake on Tuesday a…
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Charges say ex-executive at Murphy filched $81,907
A former Murphy USA executive embezzled nearly $82,000 from the El Dorado-based company in a T-shirt billing scheme that began in 2007, authorities allege in c…
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Further clues sought in bomb blast
Federal and local law enforcement officials continue to search for clues in Wednesday morning's bombing which critically injured a well-known West Memphis phys…
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Still no charges in cross burning
More than six months since someone lit a cross in a woman's yard and a subsequent fire destroyed her home, no one has been charged with a crime.
