Felsenthal News

Police tape keeps traffic away from the flooded main streets Friday in Felsenthal.

Flooding from last week's torrential rains continues in parts of Arkansas, with many rural roads covered by water in northeast Arkansas and the Union County town of Felsenthal being evacuated.

Flooding in South Arkansas' Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge is creating a dangerous situation along the Ouachita River.

A man and a woman are dead following what authorities say was a murder-suicide. Union County Sheriff Ken Jones says 60-year-old Dana Johnson was killed Wednesday inside her home in Felsenthal.

The owner of Magnolia Ave. restaurant Lili's Bistro will open a new restaurant in the same area, one block east: Cat City Grill, at 1208 Magnolia Ave., to feature 'signature sandwiches, steak and seafood,' according to a statement.

Two weekend breaches in a private levee on the Ouachita River in northern Louisiana had dropped the flooded river's levels in southern Arkansas by more than a foot by Tuesday.

Rowing down the street Frankie Breggs, in the white shirt, and Caleb Smith, use the only viable transportation on K Street, as well as in many parts of Felsenthal, as they travel to Smith's home to move out furniture Wednesday afternoon before flood waters, caused by the cresting Ouachita River, continue to rise.

Water from the rising Ouachita River is threatening homes in Felsenthal and forcing road closures, officials in the southern Arkansas town of 152 in Union County said Monday.

Felsenthal Family Fest, sponsored by Felsenthal Baptist Church, is set for Memorial Day weekend.