Helena News

A new community-based Veterans Affairs clinic in Helena-West Helena will open Nov.

Authorities say a man in Helena-West Helena is charged with forgery after a search of his home turned up phony cash and money orders.

Special to the Herald Tom Fewell has accepted the position of CEO at Scenic Mountain Medical Center .

An Arkansas company expects to complete by mid-December its acquisition of Greenwood's PYCO oil mill.

Helena-West Helena police say they've charged a 21-year-old man with capital murder after a 16-year-old was found fatally shot last week.

First and always, it's the music. The sustaining memory from the annual blues festival over the weekend will be of sitting mesmerized amid a gentle cooling breeze on the Mississippi River levee late Thursday night.

Customers who walk into the Bank of Trumann Wednesday will be greeted by the same familiar faces of the bankers they have come to know and trust.

In the Delta: The Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival will be Oct. 8-10 in downtown Helena-West Helena.

A 47-year-old woman is being held in the Phillips County jail on suspicion of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of her boyfriend.

In a move sure to please Southern ag interests, Sen. Blanche Lincoln has been named chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee.

The Festival is the largest blues festival in the south. The Delta Blues : ... Southern Music : at its Finest The Annual Pilgrimage to the Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival attracts thousands of visitors to the banks of the Mississippi River.

Richard Wright, the first African-American man to make a living as an author, is known for landmark books like "Native Son" and "Black Boy." Richard Wright's Early Days Richard Wright was born near Natchez, Mississippi, on September 4, 1908, to Nathaniel Wright, a sharecropper, and Ella Wilson Wright, a schoolteacher who later took up farm work.

The KIPP charter schools, which have proved a success story in Helena, have chosen Blytheville as the location for the next KIPP school in Arkansas.

LITTLE ROCK - Arkansas health officials gearing up for the largest flu vaccination effort in state history remained uncertain Friday whether the swine flu vaccine will be available at the same time that regular flu shots will be administered.

But a barrage of bullets ended her life on her own front porch this week. "She was a sweet girl and I don't know why he killed her," said cousin Jasmine Smith.

The Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department will hold two public involvement meetings in Northwest Arkansas to discuss the possibility of constructing the Bella Vista Bypass in Benton County as a toll facility.

The Delta Classic Scholarship Golf Tournament July 24 at the Helena Country Club raised more than $26,000 to fund scholarships for University of Arkansas students majoring in crop management or environmental, soil and water science.

Ita TMs not exactly a secret, but few Arkansans are aware of opportunities for some unusual sights and activities in August.

Herald Staff Report George Parsley has resigned his position as chief executive officer of Scenic Mountain Medical Center to accept a new position as chief operating officer at DeTar Health System in Victoria.

A proposed $1.5 million project unveiled Saturday will highlight the lives of Phillips County residents, both black and white, during the Civil War.