Cleburne County News

Heber Springs Mayor Jackie McPherson said the city's new $12 million Community Center & Indoor Aquatic Facility is projected to open by Memorial Day.

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Earl finds himself taking orders from a 12-year-old boy named Albie , who's both a bit spoiled and a bit neglected, in an attempt to make amends for frightening the child during a robbery six years earlier.

The pilota s failure to properly execute an emergency maneuver during a forced landing likely caused the November crash of an Arkansas Game and Fish Commission helicopter that killed a wildlife officer near Quitman, the National Transportation Safety Board ruled Thursday.

The chief attraction to the traveling public in Conway during the long drought has been its city water, according to George L. Bachelor, proprietor of Hotel Bachelor and president of the local Chamber of Commerce.

In our continued effort to shed light on the heated issue of health care reform, we covered a rally of small business owners at the Capitol Wednesday.

Cleburne, Prairie, Lonoke, Faulkner and White counties have reported storm damage today to the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management.

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One central Arkansas church is warning parents to keep a close eye on their kids after possible exposure to swine flu at Arkansas State University.

First Electric Cooperative held its annual Membership meeting on June 25th, at the company headquarters in Jacksonville.A At the meeting, board election results were announced and new officers for the board were selected.

Thursday the search was on for a kidnapping suspect and his hostage. Since Wednesday, Todd Bostian had been spotted all over central Arkansas.

Sheriff's officials say they recovered at least $30,000 worth of stolen property in Cleburne County near the towns of Quitman and Hopewell.

So many of the buildings are reminiscent of days gone by, leaving visitors and passersby with a feeling of going back several decades into downtown Heber Springsa heyday.

A McCrory teen has drowned while swimming at Greers Ferry Lake in Heber Springs on Monday afternoon.

A group says the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board has been too generous in granting alcohol permits in dry counties and against opposition from local officials.

The majority of Arkansas' counties are in fact, dry. And the Dry County Coalition says in some communities, allowing alcohol, goes against the will of the people.

A group calling itself the Dry County Coalition says it will press for changes on the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, which the group claims has shown a bias toward granting alcohol permits, even in dry counties and even in the face of opposition from local officials.

The Environmental Protection Agency has fined an Arkansas oil company for violating the federal Clean Water Act.

A White County woman and a Cleburne County man are jailed in Lonoke County after a drug bust in Cabot.