Mena News

Seven months after a tornado ripped through Mena, the city is getting some of its green back.

Melissa Dunbar-Gates talks with Kirby Williams of Diamond Bank about the efforts to "re-green" Mena from the devastating tornado earlier this year.

There's good reason that the Ouachita River has lured settlers along its banks at least as far back as the ancient, mound-building cultures.

I have been defamed by Taylor Branch, and he will not reply to my repeated calls for clarification.

The River City Mena s Chorus took on the many faces and meanings of courage with some fine singing and a heartstrings-tugging multimedia presentation in a program called a oeHeroesa Sunday afternoon at Little Rocka s Trinity United Methodist Church.

If you want to hear the story about how I met Ms. Marie and exactly what kind of relationship we had, I could just go right on ahead and get into all that without any problem.

It's just about back to school time for the children of tornado ravaged Mena. No business or organization was as hard hit as Mena Public Schools, according to superintendent Dr.

Earlier this morning I talked about Obama Derangement Syndrome and Bush Derangement Syndrome.

Earlier this morning I talked about Obama Derangement Syndrome and Bush Derangement Syndrome.

The Polk County sheriff says "drunk and stupid" behavior resulted in a man being fatally stabbed and another being charged with murder.

A couple of downtown businesses, including a pizza restaurant, and several homes sustained minor flooding Tuesday morning after a storm dropped nearly 4 inches of rain over the Polk County city, officials said.

A 36-year-old Mena man has been charged with capital murder in the stabbing death of a 23-year-old. Raymond D. Leach III remains in the Howard County jail on $5 million bond after the death of Christopher Ryan Casey of Mena.

For those of you who may have noticed my name missing of late from the pages of this newspaper, I appreciate any prayers you may have lifted up on my behalf.

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A Mena woman convicted of murdering her husband will have her 16-year sentence reduced after the Arkansas Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the statute of limitations had run out on her decapitation and dismembering of his corpse.

A pilot had to make an emergency landing in Polk County late Wednesday afternoon.

State Police and Polk County Sheriff's officers confirm the pilot of a private plane was having engine troubles when he was forced to bring the plane down on County Road 401 in Mena around 8 o'clock Wednesday night.

The Arkansas Court of Appeals has overturned the abuse-of-a-corpse conviction of a Mena woman charged with killing her husband and then dismembering him.

Iva Mae Sikes visits with granddaughter Tyra Hobson at the Mena Regional Health System Medical Center during rehabilitation from a stroke.

Back in April, a tornado took out hundreds of homes and businesses in Mena, Arkansas as well as thousands of trees.