Charleston News

A Charleston man died Thursday after a two-vehicle collision in Sebastian County, according to a preliminary Arkansas State Police fatality accident report.

A fire that burned the main assembly building of a wooden pallet plant in Charleston wasn't enough for the factory to end its operation of more than six decades.

Posted on: 9:09 pm, April 9, 2013, by Shain Bergan , Shanda Sundstrom and Meredith Baldwin , updated on: 01:16am, April 10, 2013 Fire crews worked throughout the night Tuesday to put out a large fire at a pallet factory in Charleston.

Special to the Democrat-Gazette/GERRY STECCA...Miami-based artist Gerry Stecca attaches clothespins to a tree as part of his Tree Wraps series in this photo taken in Lafayette, Colo.

Ask Vernon McDaniel how Franklin County ended up with a courthouse in Charleston and he'll tell you it got built the way these things sometimes do - with a campaign promise.