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Voluminous floodwaters in Norfork Lake on oxygen-poor waters underneath are bringing regulatory agencies together in unprecedented ways to correct a dissolved-oxygen problem that threatens tailwater fisheries and retards fish growth.

The flooded roads in Jackson county remind us of the floods of a couple of years ago.

Several roads in parts of Region 8 have been closed Saturday due to high waters.

The federal Energy Department says the Newport and Cedarville school districts will get a total of $3.3 million in stimulus funding to carry out work intended to increase energy efficiency.

Oct 29, 2009 10:41 AM, By Ford L. Baldwin, Practical Weed Consultants, LLC. I am going to finish this series on Palmer pigweed control in soybeans with several articles on LibertyLink soybeans.

Highway officials and Gov. Mike Beebe get ready to help open the new section of U.S. 67 at Newport on Wednesday.

A Lot of changes out there today as the highway department scrambled to open off ramps and entrances and get the signs uncovered and just let people know in general the road was open.

Among reports recently released by the Conway Police Department and Faulkner County Sheriff's Office: 1. Aggravated robbery at 200 South Harkrider St., Conway .

A guy sleeps with his gal's sister but says he didn't mean for it to happen; a guy wants to fight his gal's brother; a guy has been cheating on his gal with his uncle's ex-wife. NEWPORT, Ark.

Today, Congressman Marion Berry voted in the House of Representatives to pass an annual spending bill containing millions of dollars in funding for numerous energy and water projects requested on behalf of the First District of Arkansas.

One man is in custody--while another fights for his life in a Little Rock hospital following a shooting in a Region Eight cemetary.

A Newport man was killed Wednesday afternoon in a accident in Jackson County. The accident happened on highway 224 and Garfield Street in Newport.

Arkansas State Police captured a state prisoner who authorities said jumped out of a moving inmate transport van in Jackson County two weeks ago.

Bobby Brown's first job back from St. Louis was at the Cotton Club. Northeast Arkansas in the 1950s was once the center of the musical universe.

Jackson County has been given a six-month extension by the Arkansas Jail Standards Committee, giving the county time to come up with a plan to alleviate problems with overcrowding and understaffing.

4, at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Newport. Organist Timothy Allen and soprano Christine Westhoff, both of Little Rock, will perform.

In Newport, Greyhound spirit isn't the only thing decorating the windows and walls of local businesses.

UPDATE: Jackson County Sheriff's Department, Newport Police, Arkansas State Police, and Crawford County Sheriff's Department continue to look for the inmate who escaped from police custody.

It will only be a short while until the new section of 67/167 between Newport and Cash is open for travel.

Take a look back in history through back issues ofThe Baxter Bulletin: 100 years ago Sept.