Pike County News

Thanksgiving day marks the 23rd anniversary of the murder of Boyd Allen Dillard in Pike County.

Pike County Hospital in Murfreesboro says it has voluntarily suspended operations until Jan.

We reported in last week's Insider that the Arkansas-Democrat Gazette is now a little narrower than it used to be.

State prison officials say they plan to modify the trailer used to carry search dogs in order to provide more ventilation.

State prison officials say they plan to modify the trailer used to carry search dogs in order to provide more ventilation.

Authorities say three state prison tracking dogs died of heat exhaustion recently while searching for two Pike County jail escapees.

Two prisoners a ' one a murder suspect a ' who escaped early Wednesday from the Pike County jail in Murfreesboro were captured Thursday evening less than 24 miles from the jail after a motorist spotted one of them behaving suspiciously along a highway, an Arkansas State Police spokesman said.

Law enforcement authorities in south Arkansas captured two jail escapees within minutes of each other Thursday night.

After a record-low year for wildfires in 2008 and nearly no such fires during May this year, the number of wildfires in Arkansas is running about average through the first half of 2009.

GLENWOOD - A cooperative effort between several state and local agencies have resulted in a new fishing opportunity for western Arkansas residents.