Dumas News

The following persons made first appearance at Faulkner County Circuit Court on Monday and Wednesday: a James Brian Pearson, 33, 5477 Wofford Lane, Conway, according to a FCSO jail intake report.

The state Supreme Court today denied a request to reconsider its decision to overturn the capital murder and kidnapping convictions of a Desha County man in the slaying of a Pine Bluff teenager.

The 2009 fee for cotton classing services will increase to $2.20 per bale, up from $2.00 last year, according to David Rowland, assistant area director of the USDA Cotton Classing Office at Dumas, Ark.

Delta Memorial Hospital in Dumas, Ark., will implement the clinical/financial community hospital information systems of Healthcare Management Systems Inc., Nashville, Tenn.

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Advanced fuel cell and power delivery system supplier takes 70 percent stake in Highline Hydrogen Hybrids and Hoss Motor Sports.

Authorities are investigating the death of a state prison inmate who was found to have amphetamine and methamphetamine in his system, a prison spokeswoman said Monday.

How, one may wonder, could an Enron executive's insidertrading trial in Texas affect a federal murder case in Little Rock? The first involves complicated financial transactions involving millions of dollars and the sale of stocks, while the second centers on a territorial dispute between drug dealers in tiny Dumas.

Church leaders, including Episcopal deacon Joyce Hardy of Little Rock , will speak up for health care reform in ads placed on Christian and mainstream radio stations over the Independence Day congressional recess.

A split Arkansas Supreme Court today voted 5-2 to reverse the capital murder conviction and life sentence of Kenneth Ray Osburn , who was convicted of the August 2006 kidnaping and slaying of 17-year-old Casey Crowder of Pine Bluff.

A year and a half after a jury sentenced him to life in prison , attorneys for Kenneth Osburn, 48, want his conviction thrown out.

Ten candidates, including seven Arkansas residents, have applied to become the executive director of the state lottery, Arkansas Lottery Commission Chairman Ray Thornton said Wednesday.

Ten people had applied for the job of executive director of Arkansas' new state-run lottery by Wednesday, and Tom Courtway, interim president of the troubled University of Central Arkansas, said he plans to add his resume to the list.

Ben Bernanke, who has a job, was on the radio Tuesday morning testifying before a congressional committee about the economy.

Dumas police need your help tracking down a jail escapee. Investigators say 33-year-old Jeremy Lynn Barnett managed to get out through the roof in his cell early Monday morning.