Colt News

The recent hot and dry weather in St. Francis County has been a blessing for construction crews working to complete the first phase of Delta Regional Airport in Colt.

There are nine fire departments that serve St. Francis County residents, but only the Forrest City Fire Department is not considered a volunteer fire department.

A discussion by Clayton Township Board members on how to get rid of the police department's fully automatic firearms led to police being summoned to removed the former township attorney from the meeting.

The St. Francis County Election Commission on Wednesday discussed an application for a grant to make polling sites more handicapped-accessible, and began talking about this year's school elections.

The majority of this short biography of John Colter is from a paper by George H. Yater originally presented at the 1991 annual meeting of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation.

The second Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department project for St. Francis County, being funded by the federal stimulus package, could begin soon.

The three proposals for grant funding from the Walton Foundation for St. Francis County should be submitted next month, according to officials with Southern Bancorp.

Larry Gleasman says it's been "just crazy," in more ways than one. Sales at his Madison store, Grampa's Gun Shop, 1374 Williamson St., have been going through the roof, as they have for gun dealers nationwide.

A rifle that failed to fire earlier this month when a Faulkner County Sheriff's deputy was looking down the barrel of a pistol wielded by an apparently suicidal man near Vilonia has been checked out and returned to service.

A Colt man who was in jail for residential burglary made a short-lived escape from the St.

Gun sales have increased despite the economy in New Hampshire as people flock to retailers.

Yesterday I made it out to the range with the Norinco 84S that I picked up a couple of weeks ago.

St. Francis County had sales tax receipts of $145,103.12 in March, up from $130,325.70 in March of 2008.

AN ALLEGED illegal gun dealer charged by police over a hoard of military firearms, including the first AK-47 assault rifle seized in NSW, has used the gun amnesty to surrender more firearms.

One man was killed and a woman transported to the Regional Medical Center in Memphis following a motorcycle accident Saturday afternoon in Colt.

An Arkansas man is killed after he and his passenger are ejected from a motorcycle.

Safer streets ... some of the illegal weapons uncovered by NSW police in the year-long operation / AAP Machine guns uncovered by police Year-long operation targeting illegal supply Two men arrested AN AK-47 assault rifle, a high-calibre sniper rifle and machine guns are among a large cache of weapons uncovered by police in a sting operation ...

A GUN used by Russian troops and capable of firing 700 rounds a minute has been seized as part of an enormous arms haul following a year-long police sting.

Spring cleaning can be a chore, especially for those who don't have anywhere to put the items they need to get rid of.

Law enforcement agencies are preparing grant applications for the Community Oriented Policing Services Hiring Recovery Program through the United States Department of Justice.