A house that sits at the corner of Old Wire Road and Carrol Road is having its roof repaired this week while trees and sheds still lay strewn about from damage done from straight-line winds earlier this month.  

By PATRIC FLANNIGAN Staff Writer The Adult Literacy Coalition of South Central Arkansas has had a pretty busy schedule recently and will continue to stay busy during the spring and summer months. On Friday, members of the coalition will be present at the Child Abuse Awareness rally at the Ouachit...

By PATRIC FLANNIGAN Staff Writer The Ouachita County Division of Children and Family Services has organized a Child Abuse Awareness Rally that will be held from noon until 2 p.m. Friday at the Ouachita County Courthouse. Sheena Garrard of the Ouachita County Department of Human Services and foste...

New power lines, power poles and tree trunks lay along Graham Street in downtown Camden for work that is still being done to repair damage caused to power lines during the severe storm on April 3.  

The Camden Kiwanis Club will host Business After Hours from 5:30 - 7 p.m. today at The River Woods.  The program will feature a “Key Club Appreciation/Recognition” program. Chicken fingers, beef sliders and more will be served, along with drinks such as tea, water and lemonade.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fresh voices in the U.S. Senate are speaking loudly on foreign policy, a new generation of Republicans and Democrats who reflect a war-weary nation cautious about America’s next moves. Sens. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Rand Paul of Kentucky stand on either side o...

H.G. band to hold jazz music event The Harmony Grove Band will hold a "Harmony Grove Swingin' Hornets Jazz Ensemble" event at 6:30 p.m. today. The program will include a dinner, music show and auction.  The cost to attend is $8 for adults, $6 for students and is free to those age three and u...

Oral arguments set for man in stabbing death LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Lawyers for a man convicted in the stabbing death of a Greenbrier woman are to argue for a new trial on grounds that the jury shouldn’t have seen him in shackles and wearing a stun belt. Ronald Britton of Beebe was sentenc...

HARRISBURG (AP) — A former English teacher in northeast Arkansas has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after a jury convicted him of sexually assaulting a then-15-year-old student with whom he fathered a child. The Poinsett County jury deliberated about three hours Wednesday before convict...

Parents of dead infant held on drug charges SYLVESTER, Ga. (AP) — Officials say the parents of an infant who was found dead at their Mississippi home drove with their 2-year-old daughter to Georgia, where they are being held on felony drug warrants. Police in Sylvester, about 170 miles south...

SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russia's defense minister on Thursday announced new military exercises along the Ukrainian border just hours after Ukrainian troops killed at least two pro-Russia insurgents in eastern Ukraine. The clashes were the first since acting President Oleksandr Turchynov ord...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan security guard opened fire on a group of foreign doctors at a Kabul hospital on Thursday morning, killing three American physicians and wounding a U.S. nurse, officials said. The shooting at Cure International Hospital in western Kabul was the latest in a s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The captors of an American soldier held for nearly five years in Afghanistan have signaled a willingness to release him but are unclear which U.S. government officials have the authority to make a deal, according to two individuals in the military working for his release. Cri...

Shown in photo is Hannah Setzler, 3, who is all smiles with her father, Pfc. John Setzler of Company A 40th ESB. She was chosen “Kid of the Day” on April 11. Setzler's daughter was given the special designation during the “Month of the Military Child” program.  Hannah...

The wedding of Sheena Waters of Camden to Luke Green of Bearden has been set for May 2 in Bearden. The bride-to-be is the daughter of Annette and David Helms and Mark Waters - all of Camden. She is a graduate of Harmony Grove and an LPN graduate of the University of Arkansas Community College in H...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court has ruled that two death row inmates are not entitled to know the source of the drugs that will be used to kill them, putting them both on track to be executed as early as next week. In rejecting the inmates’ claims late Wednesday, the cou...

OPAL, Wyo. (AP) — Residents and emergency crews were waiting for a fire to burn itself out after an explosion at a natural gas processing plant in a small town in southwestern Wyoming. No injuries were reported in the explosion Wednesday in Opal, a town of about 95 people about 100 miles nort...