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Three Arkansas police departments are among only 27 nationwide that are ineligible for federal economic stimulus grants from the U.S. Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services program.

Nearly 30 police department across the U.S. are banned from getting a share of $1 billion in stimulus.

Southern Arkansas University welcomes Edgar Lee of Chidester, Ark., to its board of trustees.

There were anxious moments here Thursday as local residents helped lawmen scour the immediate vicinity of this rural hamlet searching for a missing four-year old boy.

An autopsy has determined that no foul play was involved in the disappearance of a three-year-old Ouachita County boy.

The sheriff's department says three-year-old Dominick Arcenaux died from accidentally drowning.

A 3-year-old boy who was found dead after an eight-day search in Ouachita County died by accidental drowning.

Associated Press - February 18, 2009 5:23 AM ET CHIDESTER, Ark. - The FBI says it's "grasping at straws" to come up with answers as it searches for a 3-year-old Arkansas boy who vanished a week ago.

BY GINNY LAROE Arkansas Democrat-Gazette CHIDESTER - 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. ...

Dominick Arceneaux always talked to himself when playing outside his mother's trailer, the words of the 3-year-old rising above the soft ripple on White Oak Lake.

Sheriff's deputies say they have recovered a child's body near the area where a Chidester boy disappeared a week ago.

The Arkansas State Police says the body of missing 3-year-old Chidester boy Dominick Arceneaux has been found.

Last week though, after sitting on small four-wheeler and overturning a wheelbarrow, he went silent.

A Madison County newspaper is reporting that a group of electric company workers from Pennsylvania trying to restore power to folks in the northwest Arkansas region have been subjected to racial slurs.

At a press conference Monday morning police and the FBI say they don't think 3-year-old Dominick Arcenuaux drowned.

Sixty Soldiers with the Arkansas National Guard's 39th Infantry Brigade Combat Team were called to join the search Friday morning for a missing three year old boy.

The efforts of local, state and federal agents and the help of several dozen soldiers and numerous volunteers have not been enough to locate a 3-year-old boy who vanished from his Ouachita County home.

The search for a missing 3-year-old boy in Ouachita County is continuing, with 60 Arkansas National Guard soldiers joining the effort.

The Center for Missing and Exploited Children arrived in Arkansas Thursday to assist in the search for Dominic Arcaneaux.