Helena News

Pictured with the new marker are, from left: Linda Hinton, Mayor Marion Bearden, Dr.

Ben Harris, JTAa TMs Wandering Jew, is exactly like wandering Jews of centuries past: He carries his belongings, and searches for Jewish communities the world over.

As the setting sun cast the Western sky in a pastel shade of pink, the last Jews of Helena gathered on a recent Friday night at the home of Miriam and David Solomon to welcome the Sabbath.

Ever been to Southland? Ita s a tiny community in northeast Phillips County between Helena-West Helena and Lexa.

Frances Juanita Wahl Milam was born April 12, 1923 in Madisonville, Tennessee to James Frank 'J.F.' Wahl and Zelpha Zola 'Z' House Wahl and died peacefully on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 in Mountain Home, AR.

The Arkansas Supreme Court docket shows that Circuit Judge L.T. Simes' request for a rehearing of the order suspending him from the bench was denied Tuesday and the mandate was sent to the clerk.

Canoe guru John Ruskey's exploits along the Mississippi River have been featured in Southern Living, Outside Magazine, and National Geographic.

Our orthodontic braces and declarations over the latest boy band have long since been exchanged for sensible shoes and conversations about our 401 investments.

A new community-based Veterans Affairs clinic in Helena-West Helena will open Nov.

Authorities say a man in Helena-West Helena is charged with forgery after a search of his home turned up phony cash and money orders.

Special to the Herald Tom Fewell has accepted the position of CEO at Scenic Mountain Medical Center .

An Arkansas company expects to complete by mid-December its acquisition of Greenwood's PYCO oil mill.

Helena-West Helena police say they've charged a 21-year-old man with capital murder after a 16-year-old was found fatally shot last week.

First and always, it's the music. The sustaining memory from the annual blues festival over the weekend will be of sitting mesmerized amid a gentle cooling breeze on the Mississippi River levee late Thursday night.

Customers who walk into the Bank of Trumann Wednesday will be greeted by the same familiar faces of the bankers they have come to know and trust.

In the Delta: The Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival will be Oct. 8-10 in downtown Helena-West Helena.

A 47-year-old woman is being held in the Phillips County jail on suspicion of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of her boyfriend.

In a move sure to please Southern ag interests, Sen. Blanche Lincoln has been named chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee.

The Festival is the largest blues festival in the south. The Delta Blues : ... Southern Music : at its Finest The Annual Pilgrimage to the Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival attracts thousands of visitors to the banks of the Mississippi River.

Richard Wright, the first African-American man to make a living as an author, is known for landmark books like "Native Son" and "Black Boy." Richard Wright's Early Days Richard Wright was born near Natchez, Mississippi, on September 4, 1908, to Nathaniel Wright, a sharecropper, and Ella Wilson Wright, a schoolteacher who later took up farm work.