Ashley County News

Ashley County authorities are searching a flooded roadway for a missing 19-year-old man.

Ashley County sheriff's deputies are searching for a missing Crossett teen. Dustin Evans, 19, was last seen at a New Year's Eve party on Thursday night.

Ashley County, Arkansas is not only home to beautiful countrysides, magnificent landscapes and great hunting, but it is also the county that quite a few celebrities call home and often visit.

A former Crossett police officer has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to four criminal charges.

'We had a good soybean crop. The yield was there. We have lost at least 60 percent to 80 percent due to the weather.' The rain-shocked 2009 growing season may prove to be devastating for Chicot County, Ark., where more than 65 percent of the county is farmland.

There was no successful get-out-the-vote campaign for two unopposed school board candidates in Ashley County, not in Hamburg and not in Crossett a ' not even in the homes of the candidates.

FRANKLIN CO., Ark. - This year's election at the County Line School District was pretty straightforward: school board member David Morris was running for re-election with no opponent, and there were no changes to the school's millage rate.

Louis Melanson , an Ashley County sheriff's office investigator, leads former Crossett police officer Darrell Webb from the Chicot County Courthouse.

The state Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the capital murder and kidnapping convictions of a Desha County man in the slaying of a Pine Bluff teenager, finding that police violated his constitutional rights while questioning him.