Ashley County News

'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.

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.