Scott County News

The man arrested for the murder of two men in Scott County was formally arraigned this morning in Waldron.

A Scott County man pleaded innocent Tuesday to two first-degree murder charges in the shotgun slaying of two men along a rural highway in May.

A man convicted of killing his estranged wife has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.

A man accused of killing his estranged wife in Scott County has been found guilty of second-degree murder.

Phillip Holloway beat his wife to death last summer then tried to cover up the slaying by making it appear she accidentally drove her car into a farm pond and drowned, a prosecutor told a Scott County jury Thursday.

A jury has been picked to hear the first-degree murder trial of a Scott County man accused of killing his wife.

MENA / WALDRON - A local county is looking to house their prisoners at a jail that hasn't opened yet.

A rural Scott County man was charged Friday with two counts of firstdegree murder in the shotgun slaying of two men Wednesday.

Murder charges are expected to be filed today against a Scott County man arrested in the shotgun slaying of two men.

The discovery of 2 bodies Wednesday alongside a state highway in Scott County, just east of the state line with Oklahoma, has prompted an investigation of what is apparently a double murder, Arkansas State Police said.

WALDRON / SCOTT COUNTY - Seven non-violent offenders sentenced to prison were released on bond in Scott County last week because the jail there was shutdown.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announces the U.S. department of Agriculture is distributing $45 million in Recovery Act funds to rehabilitate aging flood control structures nationwide.

The former Scott County treasurer has been arrested on suspicion of terroristic threatening.

A Scott County man face charges of possessing child pornography. Sheriff's deputies say Kevin Young had recently moved out of an apartment in Waldron.