Dumas News

Church leaders, including Episcopal deacon Joyce Hardy of Little Rock , will speak up for health care reform in ads placed on Christian and mainstream radio stations over the Independence Day congressional recess.

A split Arkansas Supreme Court today voted 5-2 to reverse the capital murder conviction and life sentence of Kenneth Ray Osburn , who was convicted of the August 2006 kidnaping and slaying of 17-year-old Casey Crowder of Pine Bluff.

A year and a half after a jury sentenced him to life in prison , attorneys for Kenneth Osburn, 48, want his conviction thrown out.

Ten candidates, including seven Arkansas residents, have applied to become the executive director of the state lottery, Arkansas Lottery Commission Chairman Ray Thornton said Wednesday.

Ten people had applied for the job of executive director of Arkansas' new state-run lottery by Wednesday, and Tom Courtway, interim president of the troubled University of Central Arkansas, said he plans to add his resume to the list.

Ben Bernanke, who has a job, was on the radio Tuesday morning testifying before a congressional committee about the economy.

Dumas police need your help tracking down a jail escapee. Investigators say 33-year-old Jeremy Lynn Barnett managed to get out through the roof in his cell early Monday morning.

Joseph P. Fannin, 44, of El Dorado purportedly took the El Dorado School District bus Friday night and drove it to a motel, leaving the bus in the middle of a driveway.

Homicide victim Markevious Q. Jackson will return to his hometown of Dumas, Ark., but not the way he or his family planned.

A Dumas man convicted Thursday of his eighth drunken driving offense managed one last drink before authorities arrested him.

Pine Bluff police have identified a suspect in the city's third homicide of 2009.

No thanks to most Southern states, Barack Obama's inauguration today represents a measure of atonement for the dark history of Jim Crow.

A Desha County man whose capital murder trial started without him in Dumas just days after a tornado devastated the town lost his appeal today before the state Supreme Court.

Photo courtesy of Dick Gibson In this file photo, CPR volunteer Robert Edwards applies tar to the Dumas' roof, a stop-gap measure that slowed leaking into the building and prepared it for the new roof installed ...

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/STATON BREIDENTHAL Justin Walker dumps a load of aluminum cans into a hopper Friday at the Express Recycling Center in North Little Rock.

If Congress approves a stimulus package for highways, Arkansas may get between $150 million to $200 million.