Searcy County News

The Baxter county Arkansas sheriff's office is looking for someone who broke into two Big Flat businesses and city hall overnight.

A circuit judge has found no probable cause to bring a criminal charge in the death of a Marshall teenager who died in 1989 while at a party with schoolmates.

A judge has concurred with the findings of a special prosecutor who has concluded that no a oeprobable or reasonable cause exists to believea that anyone killed Olivia Jane Ward, the Marshall teen who died at a party with classmates at a Searcy County cabin nearly 20 years ago.

Fallout from the faltering national economy is threatening the survival of a small-town arts center with a big impact on Searcy County.

Following a hotly contested debate and resignation of a second board chairman, a regional solid waste board narrowly decided Wednesday it should manage the landfill in Baxter County.

Twenty-seven public drinking water systems in north Arkansas remain under precautionary boil orders associated with the recent ice storm, the state Department of Health said Monday.

Many feeder lines have been restored. Work continues. From Petit Jean Electric at Clinton, Arkansas: Outage update Sunday February 1st 2009.

The Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission announces it has scheduled two formal disciplinary hearings for court judges.

A couple from Searcy County was arrested Thursday on a charge of delivery of marijuana.

The Searcy County Quorum Court set 2009 property tax rates for taxing units in the county during its meeting Monday night.