By PATRIC FLANNIGAN Staff Writer Ouachita County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Jason Dickinson sis reporting that two arrest have been made in connection to a number of break-ins that happened in the county over the weekend. Dickinson said that Tyler Adams, 18, 2710 U.S. 79, Camden, and Aus...

Ken Key, left, shown holding his son, Dylan Key, pick out tomatoes at Ricky Cummings’ booth at the Camden Farmer’s Market. The market is open on Friday and Saturday at 7 a.m., as well as on additional days that farmers decide to have a booth. Funds from a grant were recently received by...

Camden resident and local gangster reenactor Danny L. Jones, along with his ventriloquist pal, Frank (Franco) Carlotti, recently attended the 38th Annual Vent Haven ConVENTion - a gathering of 575 ventriloquists - which was held July 16-19 at the Cincinnati Airport Marriott Hotel in Hebron, Ky. Jone...

Jana Garcia will be the guest speaker at this week's meeting of the Lions Club, held at noon Wednesday at Catherine's Bistro. Garcia is scheduled to give a presentation about "Team India" and cystic fibrosis.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court delivered a potentially serious setback to President Barack Obama's health care law Tuesday, imperiling billions of dollars in subsidies for many low- and middle-income people who bought policies. The Obama administration immediately declared that tho...

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Invasive beetle seen in three Arkansas counties HOPE (AP) — State agriculture officials say an insect native to Asia that kills ash trees has been confirmed in three Arkansas counties. The Arkansas State Plant Board and the Arkansas Department of Agriculture say the emerald ash borer has bee...

LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Nearly three out of 10 kids are living in poverty in Arkansas, but the number of children without health insurance has gone down, according to a national study released Tuesday that shows how children fare in each state. The 25th annual Kids Count report from the Baltimore-...

LITTLE ROCK (AP) — A state panel finalized a deal Monday to move up to 250 inmates into an unused Pulaski County facility as part of a plan lawmakers approved earlier this month to ease overcrowding at local jails across Arkansas. The state Board of Corrections approved the agreement with Pul...

LITTLE ROCK (AP) — A group opposed to a proposal expanding alcohol sales in Arkansas asked state election officials Monday to block the measure from the November ballot, claiming its petitions weren’t submitted by the right deadline. An attorney for the group, Let Local Communities Deci...

Typhoon deaths rise to 151 as China reports more BEIJING (AP) — The death toll from the strongest typhoon to hit China’s south in decades was raised to 46 increasing the overall toll to 151 people dead in three countries just before a second storm approaches land. The Civil Affairs Min...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A gridlocked Congress failed to do the big things: overhauling the nation’s immigration system, reforming the loophole-cluttered tax code and stiffening background checks on gun buyers. Now it’s time to see whether it can just do the basics. With just two weeks b...

KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — The remains of the victims of the Malaysia Airlines crash arrived in territory held by the Ukrainian government on their way to the Netherlands, after delays and haphazard treatment of the bodies that put pressure on European foreign ministers meeting in Brussels to imp...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Raising beef for the American dinner table does far more damage to the environment than producing pork, poultry, eggs or dairy, a new study says. Compared with the other animal proteins, beef produces five times more heat-trapping gases per calorie, puts out six times as muc...

CAIRO (AP) — The U.S. and Egypt sought today to find an end to two weeks of bloodshed in the Gaza Strip, and officials raised the possibility of restarting stalled peace talks between Israel and Palestinian authorities as a necessary step to avoid sustained violence. It’s unlikely that...