Camden News

An explosion that could be heard for miles sent six defense plant workers in south Arkansas to a hospital Monday morning, officials said.

Authorities say at least one person was taken to the hospital after a blast at an east Camden plant.

It was a pleasure being part of the Cramer Hill Residents Association. Residents became neighbors as far away as Waterfront South.

Major flooding in one part of south Arkansas leads to a disaster declaration Tuesday.

Lockheed Martin announced it has broken ground for an expansion of its Arkansas-based Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile-production facilities.

Several of Arkansas' rivers are running full after a weeks worth of rain. But in south Arkansas the Ouachita River is now near major flood stage.

Southern Arkansas has been pounded by the continuing rain and one of the hardest hit areas is the city of Camden.

Plans Gov. Mike Beebe, second from right, joins members of Lockheed Martin Missile and Fire Control's production operations during the unveiling of a scale model of plans for the company's new PAC-3 facility, to be constructed within the next nine months.

Camden, AR, -A Hunter Collie, a Beebe firefighter, graduated from the Firefighter Standards Program at the Arkansas Fire Training Academy.

River levels fluctuated in eastern and southern Arkansas on Tuesday, flooding thousands of acres of cropland and threatening some residences in lowlying areas.

System engineering and program management will be performed at General Dynamicsa Burlington Technology Center in Vermont, the company said.

If each Dunkin' Donuts outlet were named instead "The Dunking Donut," with a logo depicting a smiling unisex donut doing a cannonball into a cup of coffee, the business would almost surely be acceptable to Camden's perpetual protesters-in-waiting. Zoot is a good example of the kind of cute Camden adores.

Lockheed Martin officially rolled out the new Terminal High Altitude Area Defense Weapon System launcher and Fire Control and Communications unit today in a ceremony at the company's THAAD Launcher Integration Complex in Camden, AR.

Every few blocks, piles of trash spill onto the sidewalks in Camden. Papers and bottles clog the gutters and litter vacant lots.

Bids for construction of a new jail complex in Ouachita County have been reviewed, and all but one of the contracts have been awarded, Ouachita County Judge Mike Hesterly and Ouachita County Sheriff David Norwood said.

Three people are in custody in connection with a Camden murder--including the victim's wife.

Traffic on U.S. 167 was a bit unusual on Saturday. Trailriders in Western Outfits on horseback and in mule-pulled wagons were headed south from the Sewell Oil Co.

A bill to prohibit the sale or distribution of novelty cigarette lighters in Arkansas is on its way to the governor after passing in the House Tuesday in a 97-0 vote.

A host of golden daffodils opens to the public this week on a Winn Parish field an Arkansas man planted for his ailing father.

CAMDEN, Ark.: Don't you just hate it when you forget something on the way to the bank? Well, police charge Larry Wayne Porchia forgot something - he forgot to leave his gun at home.