Pike County News

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.

Salvation for the tiny Delight School District rested on foreign soil, and the parents knew it.

A former Pike County, Ark., man who pleaded guilty to operating a methamphetamine lab was recently sentenced to 23 years in prison.