By PATRIC FLANNIGAN Staff Writer The Daffodil Festival Committee met Wednesday for the final reports from heads of different events of the 2014 Camden Daffodil Festival and Garden Tours, which will be held Friday and Saturday.  Clara Freeland, the committee’s chairman, got updates from...

Jessica Weaver has ashes placed in the sign of a cross on her forehead by Father Tony Robbins during Ash Wednesday at evening Mass at St. Louis Catholic Church. This is done as a celebration and sign of repentance to God to mark the beginning of the 40-day liturgical period of prayer, fasting and al...

By PATRIC FLANNIGAN Staff Writer The deadline for a consolidation decision has come and gone for the Stephens School District. Now comes the waiting game.  Dr. Tom Kimbrell, commissioner for the Arkansas Board of Education,  informed the school in October of 2013, that this would be a t...

By JENNIFER SHERIDAN Staff Writer Detectives of the Camden Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division have arrested a suspect involved with a stabbing in Fort Lookout on Dec. 29, 2013. Investigators obtained a warrant for Christina Roundtree, 38, of Camden, for the offense of first...

The Camden Daffodil Festival begins Friday and residents are reminded that portions of downtown Camden will be blocked off for vendors and other activities.  

New Century will meet on March 11 The New Century Club will meet at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, March 11, in the home of Mrs. Richard Taylor at 430 Palisade Drive. 150th-year event looks for vendors The Ouachita County Sesquicentennial Committee is looking for food vendors for the event's closing ceremo...

Woman’s body found in Sulphur River in southwest FOUKE (AP) — Authorities are investigating after a woman’s body was found in the Sulphur River in southwest Arkansas. The Miller County Sheriff’s Office says fishermen found the body Wednesday afternoon in the river about 9 m...

FORT SMITH (AP) — History is often about putting pieces of a puzzle together.One Fort Smith family has a few more pieces to add to its ancestry puzzle thanks to an original copy of a bill of sale documenting the transaction of a family matriarch. Five years ago, Todd Perry of Fort Smith recei...

U.S. announces visa restrictions on Russians WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is imposing visa restrictions on Russians and Crimeans who it says are “threatening the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.” In addition, President Barack Obama has signed an executive or...

BAGHDAD (AP) — A series of bombings Thursday struck commercial areas in central Iraq, killing at least 20 civilians and wounding about 60, authorities said. The four blasts came from explosives-rigged parked cars and one by a bomb that ripped through an outdoor market in four cities, police s...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — His company’s name celebrates being too stoned to get off the couch, and he hopes to bring an ultra-potent “super joint” to market. Meet Sean Green, chief executive of Kouchlock Productions and the proud owner of Washington state’s first legal-mar...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors have opposed a motion seeking to delay the sentence for a man convicted of attempted murder in a dispute over loud music until after he’s tried for fatally shooting a teenager in the incident. Florida law doesn’t allow for a delay in sentencin...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Four young men were convicted of gay sex and whipped publicly as punishment today in an Islamic court in northern Nigeria, a human rights activist said. The four were among dozens caught in a wave of arrests after Nigeria strengthened its criminal penalties for homosexua...

SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Lawmakers in Crimea declared their intention today to split from Ukraine and join Russia instead, and scheduled a referendum in 10 days for voters to decide the fate of the disputed peninsula. Russia’s parliament, clearly savoring the action, introduced a bill...

Earnestine Mckenzie, center, celebrates her upcoming 79th birthday by taking a photo with five generations of her family. Shown from left are Frances Porchia, Chelsea Williams, Mckenzie, Ja’Taiveon Porchia, and Shunda Williams.  

Pat Barnett and Don Banks admire the 2014 entries of the Daffodil Festival art competition Tuesday evening just before the winners were announced.  

Cones Patrina Golden and Jeffrey Cones announce the birth of a son, Kymani Jyree Cones, at 10:48 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 24, 2014, at the Ouachita County Medical Center. He weighed 7 pounds, 7.0 ounces and was 19 inches long. His siblings are Jakhylon Cones and Saniah Cones. His grandparents are Ha...

Wade and Dawn Green announce the engagement of their daughter, Rebekah Green, to Trey Mitchell, son of Rhonda Mitchell and Robby and Tracey Mitchell. The wedding will be held at 2 p.m. on March 29 at Marlsgate Plantation in Scott. A reception will follow the wedding. The bride-elect is granddaught...

Mandy Headrick and Stuart and Twila Sullivent announce the engagement of their daughter, Lindsay Brooke Sullivent, to William Russell Fridell Jr., son of Russell Fridell and Frances Fridell. The wedding will take place at 4 p.m. on March 15 at Grace Baptist Church. A reception will follow at Riverw...

BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev say a remark he made to his sister during a prison visit was meant to be funny and wasn’t incriminating, as prosecutors have suggested. In court documents filed Wednesday, Tsarnaev’s lawyers responded to a...

CHEBOYGAN, Mich. (AP) — From the bridge of the Coast Guard cutter Mackinaw, northern Lake Huron looks like a vast, snow-covered field dotted with ice slabs as big as boulders — a battleground for the icebreaker’s 58-member crew during one of the roughest winters in memory. It&rsqu...

NEW YORK (AP) — Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law went on trial Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan, where jurors heard him portrayed both as a murderous mouthpiece for al-Qaida and as a target of a prosecution designed to play on fears and resentments from the Sept. 11 attacks. In openi...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — One of two people charged with enslaving a mentally disabled woman for two years with her child denied on Wednesday that she hurt the woman or locked her inside a filthy basement room. Jessica Hunt told jurors that she tried to help the woman care for her daughter and...