Alpaugh News

Firefighters are battling a house and grass fire in Orosi that started in a vacant home and spread to surrounding grass.

The collision happened just before 11 a.m. Monday. The 50-year-old driver, who has not been identified, was southbound on Road 42, near Avenue 54, in a John Deere tractor.

For a good part of its rich history, residents of unincorporated Allensworth, the first African American colony west of the Mississippi, have gone without a reliable supply of safe drinking water.

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