Jackson County News

The flooded roads in Jackson county remind us of the floods of a couple of years ago.

Several roads in parts of Region 8 have been closed Saturday due to high waters.

Highway officials and Gov. Mike Beebe get ready to help open the new section of U.S. 67 at Newport on Wednesday.

A Lot of changes out there today as the highway department scrambled to open off ramps and entrances and get the signs uncovered and just let people know in general the road was open.

A Newport man was killed Wednesday afternoon in a accident in Jackson County. The accident happened on highway 224 and Garfield Street in Newport.

Arkansas State Police captured a state prisoner who authorities said jumped out of a moving inmate transport van in Jackson County two weeks ago.

The former owners of a now-defunct mental health firm have agreed to repay the state Medicaid program for fraudulent claims the company made.

Jackson County has been given a six-month extension by the Arkansas Jail Standards Committee, giving the county time to come up with a plan to alleviate problems with overcrowding and understaffing.

The Jackson County Jail received another 6 month extension from the Arkansas Jail & Standards Committee to gain control over the overcrowding problem.

Authorities say an Arkansas state prison inmate who had a court date somehow escaped from a sheriff's transport van and is on the loose.

The Newport Special School District has been awarded $75,000 from the Arkansas Department of Health Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Program to decrease and eliminate tobacco use in the schools and the community.

Tonight's News Ten Neighborhood Crime Watch takes us first to Jackson County where the Sheriff's Office has recently received numerous complaints of catalytic convertors being cut from the exhaust system of vehciles, for the precious metals they contain.

Where Elvis Presley walked, adoring fans follow, even more than 30 years after his death - if they just know where to go.

Arkansas rice farmers are past the prime period for planting, and cotton growers are getting close.

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.

Jackson County Detention Center may be a place where folks on probation end up if they make a mistake, but the center itself is the one on probation.

The meeting will launch Moving Jackson County Forward, a cooperative project of the Jackson County School District and the Newport Special School District.