West Helena News

The Forrest City Mustang team basketball camp got underway today at the Larry S. Bryant Multi-purpose and Wellness Center.

The National Symphony Orchestra will call Arkansas home for a week next year as part of its American Residency program.

Iesha Donaby visited her aunts, uncles and cousins in Wichita almost every summer.

Memphis, TN- There's a warrant out right now for the Mid-South mayor who let nearly a dozen stray dogs loose in a national forest near his town.

An Arkansas mayor who ordered 10 Humane Society dogs let loose in a national forest is wanted on animal cruelty charges after a special judge issued an arrest warrant.

The warrant was issued Friday for Helena-West Helena Mayor James Valley. Circuit Judge David Henry found reasonable cause to arrest him over accusations that he obstructed the Humane Society of Southeastern Arkansas from caring for the animals.

Valley told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that he released the dogs 2 1/2 weeks ago in the St. Francis National Forest after residents complained that the makeshift animal shelter at the city's sanitation department was inadequate. The shelter consisted of nothing more than cages, he said.

The Arkansas Supreme Court released opinions on Thursday. The court's ruling and the names of the cases are reprinted here.

Johnny Weaver sued the new city of Helena-West Helena, which merged with the city he once headed, saying he was due retirement benefits under a 2005 West Helena ordinance that the new city had not invalidated.

Last week Mayor James Valley said strays in his town are better off fending for themselves, than they are at the local animal shelter.

The gap between Berna and Winston for top prospect in the Natural State is not as wide as some may think, though Winston reports 30 scholarship offers from the likes of Arkansas, Florida State, Miami, Michigan, ...

Darius Winston, the nation's No. 2 cornerback in the class of 2009 and the class' 20th overall player, has de-committed from the University of Arkansas.

It was a good week for ... CONWAY. Word leaked of the coming announcement of a Hewlett-Packard facility for the city that could employ 1,200. ARKANSAS BAPTIST COLLEGE .

Helena-West Helena Mayor James Valley, who said last week the city was taking stray dogs to the St.

Helena West-Helena Animal Shelter was shut down in January Stray Dogs were placed in the city's sanitation lot Mayor ordered the dogs be turned loose into the St.

Helena-West Helena Mayor James Valley says he has no problem with dogs or other animals.

Ready for activation: Workers with the Forrest City Street Department trim limbs around the new three-way traffic stop at the intersection of North Washington and North Division streets this morning.

Posted By: Lindsey Clark 51 mins ago A juror's use of a cell phone to talk with her family during deliberations in the trial of an alderman accused of theft has resulted in a mistrial after the jury convicted ...

With Eric Smiley moving to Alabama, he has been moved out of the ArkansasVarsity.com Top 10.

Arkansas Secretary of State Charlie Daniels today announced the schedule for the annual summer teacher workshop series entitled "Using the State Capitol to Teach" to be offered statewide to teachers from June 4 ...

St. Francis County election officials are now in a holding pattern regarding a possible recount of last Tuesday's Preferential Primary election.

Helena-West Helena police say a suspected burglar is in a Memphis hospital after an officer shot him.