Maumelle News

The catfish barb lodged in the boy's neck after he caught the fish. MAUMELLE, AR - A 13-year-old is recovering after he was stabbed in the neck with a catfish barb.

Sesame Street is establishing a program for children with incarcerated parents and their caregivers, called Little Children, Big Challenges : Incarceration.

Cats are taking over at a mobile home park in Maumelle. The city's animal control director says there are around 100 feral cats on the Frontier Drive property.

Arkansas Attorney Gen. Dustin McDaniel has scheduled a press conference for 11 a.m. today at the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality HQ in Maumelle, with ADEQ Director Teresa Marks and U.S. Attorney Chris Thyer in attendance.

There were big honors this afternoon in Little Rock for a group of pediatric cancer survivors.

Staci Croom-Raley, Maumelle, to the State Board of Private Career Education. Appointment expires April 15, 2014.

Development of a 23,000-SF retail center in west Little Rock is in motion after a $2.18 million land deal.

Waterview Estates is home to seven large homes, two of which are owned by its developer, Rick Ferguson.

Pedestrian Joann Crawford, 47, of Marvell, was killed when Robert Lindstrom, 38, of Carriere, Miss., hit her as she was trying to cross Highway 49 North in Marvell in an unlit area at approximately 2:25 a.m., the report states.

A man is dead after a crash involving two vehicles near Des Arc. 29-year-old Leland Robinson of Maumelle was killed shortly before 4:30 p.m. yesterday.

Q. Please tell me why this abandoned piece of junk - two pieces actually - from a storm gets to stay in the Little Maumelle/Arkansas River from a storm years ago? #too long # personal responsibility #eyesore. A. The two half-sunken houseboats in the Little Maumelle channel that you can see from the I-430 bridge- and, indeed, which are visible on ... (more)

Central Arkansas Water is seeking public comment on two leases up for renewal in the Lake Maumelle watershed - Jolly Roger's Marina and the Grande Maumelle Sailing Club at Lake Maumelle.

On Saturday, crews with the Entergy power company worked to remove downed trees and replace power lines after some powerful storms hit parts of Maumelle this week.

Maumelle also got hit hard by Thursday night's storms. Throughout the day people were busy picking up the pieces...including debris from what will soon be a gym on Overstreet.

More than 30,000 homes and businesses are without power across Arkansas. Storms that moved through the state Thursday afternoon and evening left damage in several counties .

Applications are now being taken for the newly created Lake Maumelle Watershed Stakeholder Task Force.

Logan Meyer, who learned his skills in youth classes given by the Grande Maumelle Sailing Club, maneuvers a roll tack, a way of causing his boat to change directions rapidly, during the club's April 28 regatta on Lake Maumelle.

The rhythmic sound of shoes hitting the pavement is not uncommon around Little Rock these days.

MORE SURGERY: Singer Kris Allen of Conway, who in 2009 won Fox's American Idol Season 8, underwent a second wrist operation last Monday after breaking it in a New Year's Day car accident near Maumelle.

No safety decisions or rerouting considerations will be made regarding the Pegasus pipeline in the Lake Maumelle watershed until test results return on the cause of the pipeline's breach in Mayflower, Exxon Mobil officials said during a meeting Wednesday with Arkansas officials.