El Dorado News

On this Thanksgiving Day, a lot of older folks in El Dorado can be thankful for one man.

EL DORADO - City Clerk Anthony McKinnon, in addition to his duties preparing minutes of City Council meetings, keeps track of all the ordinances the city has passed.

Beer and wine are coming to Walmart's store shelves in Mountain Home. In a 5-0 vote, the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board today approved an application by Walmart Supercenter in Mountain Home for a permit to sell beer and "small-farm" wines, which come from wineries that produce 250,000 gallons or less of wine per year.

KNOE 8 News was live tonight in El Dorado, Arkansas to help light the city for Christmas.

A former executive at Murphy USA has been convicted of 3 felony theft counts by a jury that recommended 10 years' probation and a $30,000 fine.

Revenue for the three months ended Sept. 30 fell to $5.18 billion from $8.17 billion.

Authorities arrested the husband of a 27-year-old El Dorado woman after she was found suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.

LITTLE ROCK a ' Gov. Mike Beebe today declared 20 Arkansas counties disaster areas due to damage caused by heavy rains and flooding this month.

BULL SHOALS - Rob McKinney, SeaPort Airlines' chief operating officer, has "very high hopes" of success for re-establishing air service at the Boone County Airport in Harrison and three other Arkansas cities.

Regional winners have been named in the Arkansas State Fair Youth Talent competition Monday evening in Little Rock and they will compete for the state title on Saturday.

Everyone knows how big the El Dorado meet was for seeding in this week's top 10 list.

Sunshine Media has named Gary Reynolds publisher of the Little Rock edition of MD News magazine.

Auburn has three coaches with close ties to the Natural State. Defensive line coach Tracy Rocker spent five years as an assistant at Arkansas, offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn was a longtime high school coach in the area and spent one season with the Razorbacks and safeties coach Tommy Thigpen grew up a Hogs fan in El Dorado, Ark.

Diane Dumas of Eureka Springs and David and Merrye Smith of El Dorado announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Adrienne Marie Smith to Nelson Taylor Catalina, son of Nelson and Vanita Catalina of Jonesboro.

Deep soul singer Jesse James was born in 1943 in El Dorado, AR, with the handle James McClelland.

JOHN HOEVEN SAYS AN IDLED HANKINSON ETHANOL PLANT THAT IS UNDER BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION HAS BEEN SOLD TO AN ARKANSAS COMPANY.

1 Positive Attitude Month, Squirrel Awareness Month, Raptor Month. Bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, ready to swoop.

An El Dorado man is dead and two men have been arrested after a shooting at a local convenience store.

West Monroe police arrested Kenneth Hughes, 20, of Camden, Ark., and Vincent Hayden, 20, of El Dorado, Ark.

Maj. Don Bartley of the Monroe Police Department confirmed Tuesday that autopsy results are pending in the deaths of two men whose bodies were found over the weekend.