Picture: The board of directors of the Ouachita Valley Committee Foundation gather after presenting grants to local, no...
The board of directors of the Ouachita Valley Committee Foundation gather after presenting grants to local, no...
By TAMMY FRAZIER Staff Writer Non-profit organizations in Ouachita and Calhoun Counties were awarded grants Thursday during the Ouachita Valley Community Foundation Awards Ceremony, held at noon at the Camden Country Club.  OVCF is an affiliate of the Arkansas Community Foundation, with the...
Category: Local News    Published: Friday, May 24th, 2013     comments
By JENNIFER SHERIDAN Staff Writer The 2013 “Swim for Fun and Fitness” program at the Carnes Park Aquatic Pool is set to begin next week. The pool schedule will open with free swimming for the public beginning on Thursday, May 30, and lasting until Friday, May 31, according to a releas...
Category: Local News    Published: Friday, May 24th, 2013     comments
By AMY ULMER Staff Writer Renee Parker, who has served as the principal at Camden Fairview High School for the past two years, has been reassigned to the Camden Fairview Middle School, according to Robert Davis, superintendent of the Camden Fairview School District. “The principal will be r...
Category: Local News    Published: Friday, May 24th, 2013     comments
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Members of the 2013 Class at Harmony Grove bow their heads during the convocation portion of the graduation ceremony on Thursday night.  
Category: Local News    Published: Friday, May 24th, 2013     comments
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Category: Church News    Published: Friday, May 24th, 2013     comments
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Is Pope Francis an exorcist? The question has bubbled up ever since Francis laid his hands on the head of a young man in a wheelchair after celebrating Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square. The young man heaved deeply a half-dozen times, shook, then slumped in his wheel...
Category: Church News    Published: Friday, May 24th, 2013     comments
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — It was labeled “4th grade science quiz. Dinosaurs: Genesis and the Gospel.” Eighteen questions. The first four were true or false. The earth is billions of years old. A lopsided pencil mark circled false. Dinosaurs lived millions of years ago, another cir...
Category: Church News    Published: Friday, May 24th, 2013     comments
(Items for What’s Happening may be submitted to the Camden News, P.O. Box 798, Camden, AR 71701, or by e-mail at camdennews@camdenarknews.com. Items will be listed in order of event date.)   Cemetery group  meets Saturday The White Springs Cemetery group will hold its annual ceme...
Category: Announcements    Published: Friday, May 24th, 2013     comments
Police seeking suspect in fatal Wynne stabbing WYNNE (AP) — Police in Wynne are trying to find out who fatally stabbed a 33-year-old woman who was found lying behind a church. Investigators said 33-year-old Sara Collins of Wynne was found along Poplar Street the evening of May 1 and the orig...
Category: Wire News    Published: Friday, May 24th, 2013     comments
Hearing is rescheduled for bombing suspect BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge has rescheduled a probable cause hearing for surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.  U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler on Thursday scheduled the hearing for July 10. Bowler earlier this w...
Category: Wire News    Published: Friday, May 24th, 2013     comments
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — The Interstate 5 bridge collapse into the Skagit River was caused by an oversize truck hitting the span, the Washington State Patrol chief said. “For reasons unknown at this point in time the semi struck the overhead of the bridge causing the collapse,”...
Category: Wire News    Published: Friday, May 24th, 2013     comments
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