West Helena News

The morning mail is full of tips on interesting Arkansas info. Among them: * A progressive blog has set up a page to encourage campaign contributions to U.S. Reps.

Scott Shirley, executive director of the Knowledge is Power Program Delta Public Schools, hugs student Jameshia Banks after she and Domonique Bragg and other students of the programa s school in Helena-West Helena spoke before the Arkansas Board of Education on Monday in support of a new charter school in Blytheville.

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.

A circuit judge from Helena-West Helena will be suspended from the bench until his term ends next year but wona t be barred from seeking re-election, the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a 4-3 decision.

Helena-West Helena hopes to band together with other pension clients to pursue litigation against a Little Rock financial adviser.

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.

The Arkansas State Fair starts today and runs through Oct. 18 at Little Rock's State Fairgrounds.

18 at Little Rocka TMs Arkansas State Fair Grounds, and a sneak preview of the annual fun can be found in Thursdaya TMs Arkansas Weekend section.

The Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival, formerly known as the King Biscuit Blues Festival, kicked off Thursday.

An East Arkansas prosecutor said today his office is investigating financial irregularities discovered in a recent state audit of the city of Helena-West Helena.

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.

Michael Burke, a Camden native and blues musician. - No matter what name it goes by, blues fans around the nation know that once a year Helena-West Helena presents a festival that continues to draw them like flies to honey.

Ita s a cloudy Friday morning on Cherry Street in downtown Helena-West Helena. The combination of Helena and West Helena, which took effect the first day of 2006, was a needed move.

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

Starting next week, Little Rock's Clinton Library joins forces with the National Issues Forums Institute to host a series of town hall meetings on health care reform.

A dapper criminal gains the confidence of Barney, Opie and Aunt Bee, but Andy remains skeptical of the man's intentions.

Police in east Arkansas have arrested a 20-year-old Jonesboro man on suspicion of capital murder in last month's shooting death of a Helena-West Helena teen.

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.