Alma News

The Arkansas State Medical Board will decide in December whether an Alma doctor accused of fondling female patients will be allowed to return to the practice of medicine.

Leadership Crawford County's 2008 Leadership Safari youth conference is scheduled for Wednesday at the Alma Performing Arts Center, 1032 E. Main St.

TIMES RECORD * ASHERRILL@SWTIMES.COM The back roof and attic area at the historic King Opera House in downtown Van Buren caught fire Friday night shortly after roofers finished repairs to the building that was ...

TIMES RECORD * MCRIDER@SWTIMES.COM Area school enrollment numbers are flat, and school officials point to national and local economic factors as the reason.

Alma's mayor said he has received only "one or two calls" against a proposed annexation, and is hopeful voters will approve the measure in November.

More than 900 bikers participated in last year's Fayetteville Fire Fighters Association Poker Run, so organizers have added a second run.

Tony Alamo, real name 'Bernie LaZar Hoffman', was raided over the weekend by over 100 federal agents as part of a two-year investigation over allegations of sexual abuse of children, child pornography, underage ...

Since Tony Alamo's start as a California street preacher more than 40 years ago, the self-styled evangelist's story has been colorful and checkered.

Saturday's raid on Tony Alamo's compound at Fouke marked the third time police officers have raided his property.

FBI agents and state police raided an evangelists' headquarters Saturday as part of a child pornography investigation and planned to remove several children from the complex run by a man previously accused of ...

Arkansas News Bureau * jlyon@arkansasnews.com LITTLE ROCK - Van Buren now has two restaurants approved for alcohol sales.

Andrew Phillip Nichols, age 35, of Alma, Arkansas, entered a guilty plea to one count of an eight count indictment charging him with production of child pornography today, U.S. Attorney Robert C. Balfe ...

BRIAN D. SANDERFORD * TIMES RECORD Thane Stidham, 5, of Alma shows his pig during the market hog class Wednesday during the Crawford County fair in Mulberry.

A Crawford County Circuit Court jury trial has been requested for an Alma doctor charged with two counts of sexual assault in the second degree.

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TIMES RECORD * ASHERRILL@SWTIMES.COM The economy may be to blame for enrollment declines at area public schools, local superintendents presume.

Photograph submitted SSG Vickie Stanton at the Ziggurat of Ur. This is another installment of a series of short stories on local citizens from Bravo Company, 217 th Brigade Support Battalion, serving with the ...

TIMES RECORD * WFREEMAN@SWTIMES.COM An Alma man accused of producing child pornography has 10 days to submit objections to a federal judge's recommendation this week that his motion to suppress evidence be ...

Crawford County administrators reported a smooth start to the school year as classes began Monday.

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