Ashdown News

Compared to other counties, Little River County has a somewhat brief courthouse timeline.

NATCHITOCHES - Pleasant Grove High School of Texarkana, Texas, was named the Grand Champion Band Saturday at the 21st Annual Northwestern State University Marching Contest at Turpin Stadium, a release posted on the NSU Web site says.

I received a letter from Violet Bass. I get a lot of great letters, but this particular letter summed up a hard life with a lot of change.

The murder trial of an Ashdown man is being delayed by a month. Thirty-five-year-old Derick Dariel Robertson is charged with first-degree murder in the Aug.

A Texarkana woman died in a car-train accident Saturday night in Ashdown in Little River County, the Arkansas State Police reported.

The victim in a car-train collision in Ashdown has been identified as a 33-year-old Texarkana, Ark., woman.

A Texarkana woman is killed after her car is struck by a train early this morning.

Shannon Jill Fields, of Ashdown, Ark., and Kevin David Collison, of Toronto, Ontario, were married Aug.

Little River County has been told by the state to improve conditions at its jail within six months or close the facility.

ALMA Shelly Ann Newton , 1322 Briarwood, June 8, Chapter 7. ARKADELPHIA Andre Marcus Adams, 118 S. 25th, June 5, Chapter 13.

It's a tragedy that rattled this small community of 5,000. It's a crime no one here will ever forget.

Except for the roof, a pavilion is submerged at the Millwood State Park about nine miles east of Ashdown, Ark.

A 13-year-old Ashdown girl was allegedly raped by 22-year-old Kio Demarcus Gaines of Ashdown, who is now a fugitive.

Residents in Ashdown, Arkansas are dealing with flooded streets and bridges throughout the county.

Several scholarships were recently awarded to Ashdown High School seniors during the annual Ashdown Scholarship Tea.

Staff photo by Jim Williamson A bird waits for a fish as the water level rises Thursday morning near the Millwood Lake State Park, about 9 miles east of Ashdown, Ark.

REUNIONS June Ashdown High School Class of 1956 will have a reunion June 6 at Ashdown Senior Citizen Center.

NASHVILLE, Ark.-The alleged shooter in a murder-for-hire case testified Wednesday that the husband of the victim bragged about faking grief during her funeral and complained about the cost to bury her.

Retired Circuit Judge Ted Capeheart of Ashdown has been appointed to oversee the case of Union County Justice of the Peace Jack Reynolds, who was arrested in 2008 on seven felony counts of aggravated assault.

Arkansas State Sen. Barbara Horn, D-Foreman, is hugged by Janice Dancer, a Southwest Arkansas Development Council early childhood commissioner, Friday afternoon in Ashdown, Ark.