Heber Springs News

At the close of Christmas Day, how appropriate is it that we show you one more group of caring and generous people who take care of their own, led by a very special woman, our December Community Service Awards Finalist.

A 24-year-old Heber Springs man was found dead this morning in the parking lot of a Dave Ward Drive church.

The sounds of holiday songs will fill the State Capitol again today. Performances featuring more than 130 school choirs and dance troupes are going on for a second week and will wrap up on Friday.

Art students at Vilonia Junior High School have received an early Christmas present providing another avenue for learning.

Steve Anderson, editor of Workamper News , arrived in Louisville with over 1,700 survey results in hand to share with the RV manufacturers, according to a news release.

Mother Nature didn't cooperate. The night before, she dumped nearly 3 inches of rain - totaling almost 10 inches in eight days.

Heber Springs Mayor Jackie McPherson said the city's new $12 million Community Center & Indoor Aquatic Facility is projected to open by Memorial Day.

Word last week that funding recommendations may be ready by January suggested progress from the state panel charged with finding new ways to pay for improving Arkansas highways.

The health department is releasing any other details on this. However the health department says additional vaccine supplies are arriving in the state and that more is on the way.

Dick Morris, a political analyst for Fox News Channel, Republican strategist and former advisor to President Bill Clinton, is scheduled to speak at 2 p.m. today at Simon Park in downtown Conway at a "Hands off my Health Care!" rally sponsored by Patients First, a project of the Americans for Prosperity organization.

The Calico Rock Lady Pirates improved to 7-2 on the season with a 60-47 win over the Heber Springs Lady Panthers Thursday night at Harold Ray Jeffery Gymnasium in Calico Rock.

Baptist Health of Little Rock, which includes five hospitals in Arkansas, reported to the Internal Revenue Service a $40 million loss in 2008.

Harrisburg, AR Some Region 8 residents took time on Saturday to volunteer and make Arkansas more beautiful.

Photo by Clover Birdsell Bulldozers at the IESI landfill in Ash Flat remove red dirt from what will be the foundation of its third landfill cell.

Wesleyan University tonight will show a documentary about a legendary photographer.

Good help is hard to find, unless that help is doing hard time. Two manufacturers are taking advantage of a program in which they develop factories in Arkansas prisons and put convicts to work at market wages.

" Centennial Bank in Cabot recently announced that Davy Carter has been hired as Executive Vice President/General Counsel/Chief Lending Officer for its east region which includes Beebe, Cabot, Heber Springs, Jacksonville, Mountain View, Searcy and Ward.

A legislative panel that oversees state agencies adopted a proposal today by state Sen.

Anyone planning to be around Greers Ferry Dam in Heber Springs on Saturday will want to make note of the detour routes.

The pilota s failure to properly execute an emergency maneuver during a forced landing likely caused the November crash of an Arkansas Game and Fish Commission helicopter that killed a wildlife officer near Quitman, the National Transportation Safety Board ruled Thursday.