East Camden News

Police arrested a 24-year-old woman for the slaying of a 71-year-old man in East Camden.

Storms passing through south Arkansas in advance of a line of heavy rainfall prompted tornado warnings for several counties in the region, and two tornadoes were reported.

A tree is down near a vehicle in a flooded mobile home park in East Camden. ADVERSTISMENT Heavy rain fell from far southern Arkansas to the Missouri state line, stranding people in their homes while strong winds damaged buildings and toppled trees and utility lines.

Much of East Camden is still in the dark. The National Weather Service confirmed Friday, it was an E-F2 tornado that ripped through Ouachita County, uprooting trees and damaging homes.

Camden - Authorities say the Arkansas Fire Academy in East Camden was heavily damaged as severe storms and tornadoes passed through Ouachita County Thursday afternoon.

The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado was reported at East Camden in Ouachita County this afternoon, shortly before 3:45. Damage reports include downed trees and that Highway 278/274 is impassable.

An independent candidate running for Camden City Council who lashed out against a television crew last week was charged Wednesday with second-degree robbery, simple assault and criminal mischief, police said.

Crews are cleaning up after a storm destroyed the Fire Academy in East Camden. Ouachita and Calhoun Counties had several reports of damage and flooding.

Severe weather in Arkansas Thursday tore through a fire academy in East Camden. About 60 students were on campus at the time.

Calhoun County: Reports of damage at Southern Arkansas University Camden: Reports of flooding and trees down East Camden: Damage to the fire academy Union County: Reports of trees and power lines down Flooding in Conway A lot of cities and towns in Central Arkansas are concerned about flooding.

From playing pool and video games, to riding dirt bikes and going to amusement parks, the friendship between Raymond Morales and Juan Rivera-Velez sounds like many others.

The city's housing authority will receive $10 million in federal stimulus funds to help complete its Roosevelt Manor project in the Centerville neighborhood.

CAMDEN -- Gov. Jon S. Corzine on Tuesday night defended the state's investment in Camden but acknowledged residents' concerns about the lack of progress in their neighborhoods.

A 20-year-old Camden man was arrested on weapons charges Thursday after police were called for reports of a man firing off shots in East Camden.

As night fell over a balmy Wednesday, children and their parents began congregating on a vacant lot at the edge of a busy commercial strip in East Camden.

Bentonville Police Chief James Allen wants a former officer stripped of her law enforcement certification for her own protection.

An explosion that could be heard for miles sent six defense plant workers in south Arkansas to a hospital Monday morning, officials said.

The U.S. Defense Department's Defense Security Service has honored two Raytheon facilities with a 2009 James Cogswell award.

An investigation is underway in East Camden after a late morning explosion at a defense plant sent six workers to the hospital.

Vincent Williams, the man charged with beating 9-year-old Jamarr Cruz to death in Camden in March, called 911 on the morning of the child's death and told the operator that Jamarr "got kicked in the stomach." Williams, the live-in boyfriend of Jamarr's mother, Omayra Cruz, called for an ambulance a few minutes after 7 a.m., when Cruz discovered her ...