Clarendon News

Back when then-Gov. Mike Huckabee was trying to consolidate high schools for better educational opportunities, I was among dozens openly agreeing with him.

Twenty-two Clarendon High School graduating seniors were awarded a combined total of more than $290,134, according to announcements made during the school's annual commencement last Friday night.

The rains that fell on the Natural State over the weekend are now headed down many of Arkansas' rivers.

Police Chief Willie Farr Jr. was fired Monday night, one week after authorities accused him of stealing from a Dollar General Store in this Monroe County community.

The Jamaica Reggae Industry Association will hold elections to its board of directors on Tuesday, May 5, 2009.

Twelve community health centers in Arkansas will share over $3 million in federal money to expand services.

I'm here in this poor Delta town, tucked against a levee that keeps the White River out, for the annual chamber of commerce banquet.

Freddie McGregor: "People are really into some of the older stuff." For more than 40 years, soulful singer Freddie McGregor has shared some of the richest "roots" reggae this side of Bob Marley.

Justin Williams, an eighth-grader at Clarendon High School, attended a once-in-a-lifetime event last week, along with 5,000 other students at the Junior Presidential Youth Inaugural Conference in Washington.