Hempstead County News

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity policy conference set to begin today at the University of Arkansas Community College at Hope, featuring tonight's keynote address by former U.S. House majority ...

Five new Arkansas State Police troopers were recently assigned to Southwest Arkansas.

A 24-year-old Hope, Ark., man was killed Sunday about 3:25 a.m. after he was hit by a vehicle on Interstate 30.

A tug-of-war usually lasts a couple of minutes, but the struggle over the county seat in Hempstead County lasted sixty years.

Miller County authorities have recaptured another one of the inmates who escaped from the jail Tuesday night.

Initial reports were that seven inmates hacked their way through the bars on a second story window, broke through glass and scaled a razor wire fence around 9:30 p. m. Tuesday.

Chief Deputy Tommy Hollin said Wednesday that initial reports had two prisoners missing that actually weren't, as one man was simply in another part of the jail and another had was being held in Hempstead ...

Even though SWEPCO has not gotten all the necessary permissions to build a planned power plant in Hempstead County, the company has applied for a permit for a 29-mile electric transmission line between the ...

You can see in this one reason why the polluters of Arkansas -- and their colleagues and toadies on the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission, such as commissioner and steelmaker Thomas Schueck -- ...

A 3-year-old girl was killed and two other children and a woman were injured in a two-vehicle accident at 8:35 p.m. Sunday on Interstate 30, east of Hope.

Three people, including a toddler, died in three separate accidents across the Ark-La-Tex. Arkansas State Police say a three-year-old was killed when the truck she was in rolled-over about 8:30 Sunday night on ...

The air is clear in Hempstead County after a landfill five miles from hope caught fire.

Emergency officials have called off an evacuation of homes around a burning landfill in Hempstead County after tests showed that no toxins were released into the air.

Emergency officials say an evacuation of homes around a burning landfill in Hempstead County is continuing.

Hempstead County authorities say a fire is burning at a landfill southwest of Hope.

By STEPHANIE HARRIS-SMITH Hope Star Writer A recent disease alert was sent out by the Arkansas Livestock and Poultry Commission regarding Avian Influenza, commonly known as the bird flu in chickens.

Charges are still pending against a man accused of last month's fatal shooting of an 18-year-old and the injuring three others, Hempstead County Prosecutor Chris Thomason said.

U.S. District Judge Harry Barnes presided over a three-day hearing last week in the case brought by hunters and landowners against Southwestern Electric Power Co.

By STEPHANIE HARRIS-SMITH Published: Wednesday, June 4, 2008 2:49 PM CDT Hope Star Writer Mayor Dennis Ramsey and Hempstead County Economic Development President Wesley Woodard declared May 30 to be Joe Stuart ...

Gov. Mike Beebe on Wednesday told conservationists opposed to a new $1.3 billion coal-fired power plant in southwest Arkansas that it's unrealistic to quickly eliminate coal as an energy source.