Desha County News

A split Arkansas Supreme Court today voted 5-2 to reverse the capital murder conviction and life sentence of Kenneth Ray Osburn , who was convicted of the August 2006 kidnaping and slaying of 17-year-old Casey Crowder of Pine Bluff.

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

Three Arkansas police departments are among only 27 nationwide that are ineligible for federal economic stimulus grants from the U.S. Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services program.

A DESHA COUNTY, ARKANSAS TOWN WILL TAKE AN ECONOMIC HIT WHEN AUTOMOTIVE SUPPLIER FEDERAL MOGUL CLOSES ITS PLANT.

An El Dorado man accused of being drunk and taking a school bus has been ordered by a judge to stay put in the evenings.

Arkansas Surgeon General Joe Thompson said hundreds of lives would be saved each year if state legislators pass three bills on drivers' safety and emergency care being discussed at the Capitol this week.

Ghost hunter May Duvall stood near the jury box of the old Desha County Courthouse and began peppering the spirits with questions.

A Desha County man whose capital murder trial started without him in Dumas just days after a tornado devastated the town lost his appeal today before the state Supreme Court.

It was three minutes before noon on a frigid December day when the 108-year-old bell atop the old Desha County Courthouse rang once.

ARKANSAS CITY a ' It was three minutes before noon on a frigid December day when the 108-year-old bell atop the old Desha County Courthouse rang once.