Ashley County News

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.

A year and a half after a jury sentenced him to life in prison , attorneys for Kenneth Osburn, 48, want his conviction thrown out.

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State and federal officials announce that nearly a million dollars in disaster aid has been approved for residents in Ashley, Miller, Polk, and Sevier counties who are recovering from the severe storms and tornadoes of April 9. Recovery summary information is as follows: $722,000 is approved to help disaster-affected Arkansans with temporary ...

The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency announce the opening of a Disaster Recovery Center in Ashley County at Crossett on Thursday, May 14, at noon.

President Barack Obama has approved Ashley and Howard counties as primary, natural disaster areas due to severe storms and tornadoes that occurred on April 9. In accordance with Section 321 of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, Union County was named as a contiguous disaster area.

Ashley County has been added to the list of Arkansas counties authorized for Disaster Unemployment Assistance as a direct result of the severe storms and tornadoes that began in four Arkansas counties on April 9. At the request of Gov.

The White House has added Ashley County to the disaster declaration for the April 9 storms that struck Arkansas.

Governor Mike Beebe received word Tuesday afternoon that the Obama administration has granted Arkansas's request for a public-assistance disaster declaration in Ashley, Howard, Miller, Polk and Sevier Counties.

Up to 465 students in Mena, Ark., will have to attend classes elsewhere after a tornado on April 9 damaged the Mena Middle School so severely that the building will have to be condemned.

Gov. Mike Beebe has declared two more counties disaster areas after severe storms hit the state last week.

When one thinks of a community volunteer in Marked Tree, Bill Stanley is one of the first people to come to mind.

Edward Robinson, accused of strangling his 6-month-old daughter, stood before a judge Friday morning and listened as a prosecutor outlined evidence against him.

Since the turn of the century, red-banded stink bugs have rapidly become the most significant pest in Louisiana soybeans.

We knew profit and loss statements for calendar 2008 weren't going to be pretty for many a bank; there was just no avoiding it.

Crossett Board Debates Use of Football Field for Relay for Life, Extends Warren's Contract a Year Penny Brown, chairman of the 2009 Ashley County Relay for Life, expresses concerns about the rules for the use ...

The Ashley County Sheriff's Department is still seeking assistance from the public to locate a Level 3 registered sex offender who has eluded law enforcement officers since October, 2005.

Two weeks after Ashley County Sheriff David Johnson walked Warren and Bradley County law enforcement and city officials through the Ashley County Detention Center, the county jail is housing 14 Bradley County ...

ACMC Ends Fiscal Year in Black by $60,639 The Ashley County Medical Center completed its 2007-2008 fiscal year on September 30 and was in the black for the year, but only by $60,639, according to the report ...

Toni Elliott The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards on Tuesday, December 9, released the names of 265 Arkansas teachers who attained National Board certification in 2008.