Independence County News

District winners of the 63rd annual Arkansas Farm Family of the Year program have been selected.

After several years in operation the generation of power from nature in Independence County has hit a short circuit.

"Don't sign the petition, the money isn't there," is the basis for the family minded Coalition for the Future of Sharp County which opposes the issue of Sharp County becoming wet.

Vilonia pageant winners to represent city By LINDA HICKS A Saturday pageant held in Vilonia concluded with a slate of royalty.

The second of two men who escaped from the Sharp County jail Tuesday night is back behind bars after police nabbed him at a Batesville home Wednesday evening, authorities said.

The Fulton County Sheriff's Department arrested two suspects on May 7 on felony theft charges stemming from the theft and sale of five head of Charolais cross bred cattle from Dennis Richardson's farm near Elizabeth.

Jackson County received around one inch of rain overnight. The Black River continues to reach well beyond its banks, turning farmland into rivers and ponds.

Independence County Sheriff's Department received a call about a small boat capsizing on the White River May 9. Two men were in the boat when it capsized, neither were wearing a life vest.

Mailing a first class letter via the U.S. Postal Service costs 42 cents Sunday, but Monday it'll be two pennies more.

A Sulphur Rock man is killed after flipping his car while trying to flee an Independence County Deputy.

The board of directors of the Ozark Gateway Tourist Council has elected officers for the 2009-2010 fiscal year.

The office that oversees the state's drug courts says funding is in place to double the number of juvenile drug courts to 10.

Sheriff's deputies say a Batesville substitute teacher faces three felony counts of sexual assault after allegedly kissing and rubbing the groin of some students.

Artifacts of prehistoric people who lived in Arkansas are being excavated by professionals who are trying to piece together more of the story of those who once lived here.

An Independence County worker cleaning up storm debris has died after being hit by a car.

Thata s the kind of thinking Cole said First Community Bank was built on. Cole left a job with another Batesville bank in 1996 and was approached by a group of Batesville businessmen and community leaders who asked him to stay in Batesville and start a new bank.

The town of Mena bore the brunt of Thursday night's severe weather in Arkansas, but other areas also report storm damage.

Tourism and travel in the eight counties that make up the Ozark Gateway Tourism region was up four percent last year over 2007, according to an annual report by the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism.A The data was released last week during the 35th annual Governora s Conference on Tourism held in Fort Smith.

Several people were sentenced to prison terms over the last two weeks in 14th Judicial Circuit Court, including the second defendant charged with attempting to kill a Mountain Home man last year.

Free drinks will soon be back aboard US Airways flights. The Arizona-based airline announced today that beginning March 1st, coach passengers will again be offered free soda, juice, tea, bottled water and ...