Lawrence County News

Fire departments in Lawrence County are on the scene of a fully involved house fire.

With so much rain falling or having fell. Familiar roads and bridges may become hazardous.

Around 2:05 p.m., officers were called to Arkansas Hall in reference to a suspect with a pistol to his head hanging out a window.

The former manager of the Portia Housing Authority in northeastern Arkansas has been arrested on allegations of fraud and theft.

Every year school districts work and rework their budgets trying to provide as much as they can for their students.

Two people were killed Sunday evening in an accident in Lawrence County. The accident happened around 6:15 Sunday evening near Minturn in Lawrence County.

The Walnut Ridge airport with its long runway and distance from town could make a good landing location for an aircraft in trouble.

Craighead Electric Cooperative will de-energize two substations in Lawrence County level server al residents without power for a little while.

Craighead Electric Cooperative will de-energize two substations in Lawrence County level server al residents without power for a little while.

Craighead Electric Cooperative will de-energize two substations in Lawrence County level server al residents without power for a little while.

Kayla A'Marie Woodard , two and a half, is the daughter of Jody and Stephanie Woodard of Kansas City, Mo.

Detective David Burnside, with the Walnut Ridge Police Department in Lawrence County, Arkansas, weighs blocks of marijuana found on an aircraft at the Walnut Ridge Airport Monday.

Tammy Christine Hanson, 42, a fugitive from Baxter County for the last 3 1/2 years on a conviction of cruelty to animals, was held without bond after a court hearing in Vermont Monday afternoon, said Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery.

The old town of Powhatan in Lawrence county was at one time the county seat for nearly half of Arkansas and a large part of Missouri.

An 11-year-old boy who police first thought was shot with an errant bullet, accidentally shot and killed himself while playing Saturday, police said Wednesday.

Police say an 11-year-old boy who fatally shot himself last week thought the revolver was a toy gun.

Officials with the Lawrence County Sheriff's Office Monday confirmed the shooting death of Jace Freeman, 11, Smithville.

Authorities say an 11-year-old Smithville boy has died at Arkansas Children's Hospital after being shot outside his home.

On Saturday, Vermont law enforcement officials nabbed a former Baxter County woman who's been on the run for the past 3 1/2 years.

Sebastian County is the big winner in the stimulus-money sweepstakes for Arkansas highways, with Pulaski County a distant second, federal figures show.