Union County News

Three Union County men have been arrested on suspicion of capital murder and aggravated robbery for the death of a 73-year-old Emerson man.

Strange laws on the books in El Dora...

Flooding from last week's torrential rains continues in parts of Arkansas, with many rural roads covered by water in northeast Arkansas and the Union County town of Felsenthal being evacuated.

North Little Rock Fire Department Lt. Jeff Jeffries, right, and firefighter Brian Miller mark automobiles in a flooded intersection in North Little Rock on Friday after hours of heavy rains Thursday and early Friday.

A man and a woman are dead following what authorities say was a murder-suicide. Union County Sheriff Ken Jones says 60-year-old Dana Johnson was killed Wednesday inside her home in Felsenthal.

Computers are no longer on the list of freebies available under a program designed to reward good students with funds generated through the sale of specialty license plates.

Though 11 of Arkansas' 75 counties are equipped with software to electronically record real estate documents, only two have begun processing electronic records.

Gov. Mike Beebe has appointed an El Dorado oil and gas executive to the state's Game and Fish Commission.

Two people were hospitalized and a third person was treated after chlorine leaked from a tanker truck on U.S. 82 near El Dorado.

A judge has ordered that a Union County justice of the peace charged with aggravated assault be tried in Cleveland County.

By STEVEN MROSS The Sentinel-Record HOT SPRINGS - A Strong man was allegedly assaulted by two unknown men near the boat ramps at Hill Wheatley Park on Lake Hamilton late Friday.

Two weekend breaches in a private levee on the Ouachita River in northern Louisiana had dropped the flooded river's levels in southern Arkansas by more than a foot by Tuesday.

Despite having the highest per-capita HIV rate in Arkansas, Union County will not receive a $36,337 outreach grant from the Arkansas Minority Health Commission, The Associated Press reports.

Union County won't receive a state grant to improve outreach to those with AIDS and HIV in the south Arkansas county, despite the fact it has the highest per-capita rate of the illness and virus in Arkansas.

Rowing down the street Frankie Breggs, in the white shirt, and Caleb Smith, use the only viable transportation on K Street, as well as in many parts of Felsenthal, as they travel to Smith's home to move out furniture Wednesday afternoon before flood waters, caused by the cresting Ouachita River, continue to rise.

Water from the rising Ouachita River is threatening homes in Felsenthal and forcing road closures, officials in the southern Arkansas town of 152 in Union County said Monday.

Water from the rising Ouachita River is threatening homes in Felsenthal and forcing road closures, officials in the southern Arkansas town of 152 in Union County said Monday.

A backhoe claw pressed against a pallet-sized piece of wood is all that's stopping the Ouachita River from rushing into Calion.

Union County Sheriff's Investigators Josh Newton, at the rear of the boat, and Randy Conley, take off from Crabapple Point in Calion Monday afternoon to search the shore for homeowners with property adjacent to the water who might need assistance as heavy rains raised water levels throughout Union County.

A motorcyclist was killed in a head-on collision with his wife's car in Union County after they had left a social gathering where police say the man had been drinking.