Mississippi County News

Some Region 8 tomato farmers are seeing red and it's not from their produce. They say their crops are dying off and that's causing them to lose a lot of green! "They're small.

St. Francis County had an unemployment rate of 9.1 percent in May, up from 8.9 percent in April, and also up from the 8.3 percent recorded in May of last year.

The National Weather Service in Memphis has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for south central Mississippi County in eastern Arkansas, Crockett County, south central Dyer County, Haywood County, Lauderdale County, northwestern Madison County, Tipton County until 6 p.m. At 5:14 p.m. radar indicated a line of severe thunderstorms producing ...

SouthBank President Homer Thompson, of Blytheville, has been selected for the distinguished honor of Arkansas Chapter of National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials Member of the Year Award for 2009 for his service on the Mississippi County Public Facilities Board in Osceola.

Two inmates who escaped from an Arkansas prison while disguised as correction officers had identification badges, handcuffs and a set of keys with them when they were captured in New York last week, authorities said Monday.

Two escaped Arkansas prison inmates who were captured in New York on Tuesday were being held in separate cells in New York on Wednesday as an investigation continued into how the men were able to obtain corrections officer uniforms and walk out of the prison unchallenged last week.

The Leachville City Council reviewed complaints with 911 Fire Department emergency relays at the regular city council meeting held Monday, May 18.

The City of Dyess will celebrate its 75th birthday at 6 p.m. Friday, May 22 with a homecoming on the circle downtown and a commemorative ceremony at the founder's memorial.

It's a bittersweet time for students and some of their parents in Mississippi county.

Manila fifth and sixth grade students attended a program on Herman Davis at the Herman Davis Memorial Park in Manila on Wednesday afternoon.

When the Air Force gives you an old air base, what do you do with it? You change the name to the Arkansas Aeroplex and you begin to look for tenants.

Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor , along with Rep. Marion Berry , announced today that several local airports will receive $4,822,491 in federal grant funding from the Federal Aviation Administration.

The swampland here still tries to reclaim its past, swallowing up concrete foundations reinforced with steel beams and spitting out its buried dead.

The Mississippi County Quorum Court appointed James Sanders of Blytheville on Tuesday evening to fill out the term of Sheriff Leroy Meadows, who died March 27.

Joe Chipman of Manila has always been able to take a normal conversation or a new sight and create a song around the subject matter.

From saving green to saving the planet, the owners of Whitten Farms near Tyronza today spoke before the congregation at Temple Israel in Jonesboro.

I made a passing reference the other day to a Johnny Cash museum mentioned in the legislature's division of the general improvement fund for local projects.

Three Arkansas school districts have been placed on the list of those in fiscal distress and now face consolidation or annexation in two years.

The 'Help is Here Express' bus tour will be stopping in Arkansas throughout the week of April 13 -- April 17 at various cities in order to help uninsured and financially-struggling Arkansans access information on programs that provide prescription medicines for free or nearly free.

Russell Henry of Jonesboro has been called an amateur archaeologist, but he tends to think of himself as an archaeological enthusiast.