Hempstead County News

Hempstead County authorities are investigating a double fatal accident. The accident happened Thursday afternoon on County Road 15 in Arkansas.

June 24-30, 2009 It was a GOOD week for a A The ENVIRONMENT . The state Court of Appeals ruled that SWEPCO shouldn't have been issued a construction permit for a coal-fired generating plant in Hempstead County.

Despite a ruling by the Arkansas Appeals Court, construction continues at the site of a proposed coal-fire power plant in Hempstead County.

Swepco will appeal last week's Arkansas Court of Appeals ruling that rejected the state permit for its Hempstead County power plant.

The Arkansas Court of Appeals says "no" to a coal-fired power plant in Hempstead County saying the power company didn't do enough to notify the public about the $1.6 billion project before it started.

The Arkansas Court of Appeals says state regulators didn't adequately review plans for a $1.6 billion coal-fired power plant in Hempstead County and has rejected a permit allowing its construction.

State regulators are expected to rule soon on whether three groups trying to oppose a $53.9 million rate hike that will help fund a southwest Arkansas power plant can intervene in the case.

Opponents of a $1.6 billion coal-fired power plant in southwest Arkansas say state regulators relied on flawed data when they approved an air permit for the project.

An administrative judge says he won't consider arguments that regulators did not properly analyze the potential carbon dioxide pollution caused by a proposed coal-fired power plant before approving an air permit.

A new poll shows Arkansans overwhelmingly support new standards for renewable energy sources, environmental groups said Wednesday.

Col. Kirk VanPelt took command of the state's largest National Guard unit Sunday with a hail of cannon fire and flurry of flags under a cloudless sky.

Fitch Ratings has revised its rating of Southwest Electric Power Co. from stable to negative.

Hempstead County authorities seized drugs and counterfeit money in a raid on a rural home, where they arrested a man and a woman.

Hempstead County deputies and agents of several Arkansas agencies joined together in a warrant operation netting two arrests Tuesday.

A Hope, Ark., man died in a head-on collision about 4:10 p.m. Friday on Hempstead County Road 3. Paul M. Holt, 61, died of injuries from the collision after his northbound 2001 Dodge pickup crossed into the path of a southbound Honda Pilot driven by Susan P. O'Bryant, 56, of Hope.

A stockpile of mobile homes and travel trailers at the Hope airport, originally destined for Gulf Coast hurricane survivors in 2005, is scheduled to shrink in the next two years, and so will the revenue it brings to the southwest Arkansas town.

Two teen girls who had been sought by law enforcement here after reports of their disappearance last week have returned to Hempstead County, and the Nashville man with whom they were traveling awaits extradition on state charges.

From a school in Hempstead County which will graduate nine proud students to a school in Hope which will graduate a record 316 students, graduation season is here.

Opponents of a coal-fired power plant under construction in southwest Arkansas say a regulatory panel didn't get a complete picture of the plant's impact because it was not addressed in one proceeding.

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