Franklin County News

A Johnson County dive team was called to the Arkansas River in Franklin County to check out a truck found near the boat ramp at White Oak Park on the Arkansas River.

Franklin County residents northeast of Ozark were hit a second time in six weeks by a strong storm that damaged property but spared them injuries.

The weather service is still determining whether Friday's storm produced any tornados.

Storms that moved through Arkansas left trees and power lines down in northwest Arkansas and in Ouachita County in the far south of the state.

Law enforcement agencies described the level of criminal activity as "routine" at the four-day Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival that drew up to 15,000 people to Mulberry Mountain.

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A neighbor who lives along South Hopkins Road in Branch called 911 Friday night when a man fell from a power pole near her home.

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A man who was shocked by 7,200 volts of electricity while trying to rig an unmetered power line to his house is hospitalized, and charges are pending for theft and for a methamphetamine lab deputies found in his house.

A man who was shocked by 7,200 volts of electricity while trying to rig an unmetered power line to his house is hospitalized, and charges are pending for theft and for the methamphetamine lab deputies found in his house.

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/MICHAEL WOODS Thousands of people are expected to arrive this week for the four-day Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival on Mulberry Mountain.

The Franklin County Sheriff's Department has six full-time officers. Sheriff Reed Haynes said that isn't enough for the county, which stretches more than 700 square miles.

For Thursday, May 21, the 40/29 News team is working on the following stories: Gas prices are creeping upwards as summer and the Memorial Day weekend approach.

A crowd of Mulberry residents gathered and jeered at David Sweet when police arrested him April 30 in connection with the attempted abduction of a female medical clinic employee, a deputy's arrest report said.

Traffic is down to one lane on a short stretch of U.S. 71 north of Mountainburg because heavy rains the last two years are causing a portion of roadway to slide down a hillside.

Ozark and Franklin County authorities said they apprehended a man accused of committing a bank robbery at Bank of the Ozarks at 2001 W. Commercial Street in Ozark Monday morning.

Observant residents helped police Monday quickly capture a man suspected of robbing a Bank of the Ozarks branch in Ozark.

Gov. Mike Beebe is named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed Wednesday alleging he wrongfully refused to commission the winner of Altus' November 2006 mayoral election.

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/DAVE HUGHES A large oak tree fell on the home of Ken and Roxanne Nichols in the Southland Cross Roads area of Franklin County when a tornado passed through Wednesday night.

People are still cleaning up after severe weather Wednesday caused quite a bit of damage in Franklin County.