Drew County News

YELLVILLE - Yellville-Summit schools Superintendent Jack Dwyer is in a race with the clock to have a fiscal distress recovery plan ready for the Arkansas Board of Education's review not later than 4 p.m. Christmas Eve.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has amended the Dec. 3 major disaster declaration for 37 Arkansas counties struck by severe storms, tornadoes and flooding beginning on Oct.

Republicans of the Religious Right - which is most Republicans these days - are feeling the sting of ingratitude.

A Drew County man has been found not guilty in the beating death of a horse. Attorneys said Thursday that 20-year-old Benjamin Briney was acquitted of felony aggravated animal cruelty for beating the pony to death with a baseball bat in August.

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A court in Monticello put Arkansas' newly enacted felony animal cruelty law into action.

More Hampton residents are battling mother nature. Just a few days after high winds left damage at the high school there, flash flooding has presented new weather-related problems.

A vacant two-story building has collapsed in Monticello, but no injuries have been reported.

A Drew County man has been charged with felony aggravated cruelty to animals in the beating death of a horse.

Authorities arrested a Drew County man Wednesday morning and accused him of beating a small pony to death with a wooden baseball bat in a wooded area southeast of Monticello.

A Drew County man has been charged with felony aggravated cruelty to animals in the beating death of a horse.

Taking a cue from Saline County, a southeast Arkansas judge has banned credit bonding in his courtroom, a practice where defendants get out of jail on the cheap with the help of bail bondsmen.

Drew County authorities are looking for a man in connection with the shooting death of his brother.

Warren - The Pink Tomato Festival is in full swing in Warren this week, but the pink tomato was being shipped out of southeast Arkansas long before the festival.

There has to be a story behind a place where the first county seat was a town called Rough and Ready.