Helena News

Bubba Sullivan, a member of the Sonny Boy Blues Society board which organizes the event, says hard economic times and loss of some sponsors led organizers to institute a fee.

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis on Friday ordered a hearing in a $2 billion environmental-contamination lawsuit filed by an East Arkansas farmer against former owners of a chemical plant.

Taking a disturbing health report to heart, one state lawmaker set out to improve conditions in the Arkansas Delta - and took the challenge personally.

Amarillo College Board of Regents voted Tuesday night to name acting President Paul Matney the lone finalist to become the school's 13th president.

U.S. Coast Guard officials say a portion of the Mississippi River has been closed to traffic after two towboats collided.

For much of 2007 and 2008, wheat, corn and soybean basis levels in eastern Arkansas were historically weak.

Abanded and neglected horses and ponies are of paramount importance to the 500 members of the Bluebonnet Equine Humane Society.

American Red Cross disaster teams are working in communities across eastern and southern Arkansas with residents affected by flooding and uprooted trees from storms that hit the state Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.

A circuit judge edged closer to being removed from the bench Friday after a state judicial panel recommended that the Arkansas Supreme Court relieve him of his duties.

7. More than 40 movie posters from 1915 through 2002 appear in the exhibit, which draws on the archives of the Indiana University Black Film Center at Bloomington.

On the edge of his property at historic Beaver Dam Lake, just outside of Tunica, Boyd can point to a pair of Canada geese sitting in an eagle's nest more than 80 feet off the ground.

A homicide investigation is underway near Helena-West Helena, AR, after a body was found inside a burning pickup truck.

Theodore Roosevelt "Hound Dog" Taylor was born on April 12, 1915 and he passed away on December 17, 1975.

As you cross the mighty Mississippi River at Helena, Arkansas and arrive in the Magnolia State of Mississippi, you will see the familiar image of a tropical bird gracing the large entrance to the Isle of Capri Casino.

Midnight Flyer is a weekly, two hour program featuring a wide variety of blues, interviews, biographies and stories about the blues.

A man in Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, is behind bars accused of shooting a registered sex offender he claims raped his young daughter.

There's is a new push to bring back artifacts found in 1960 in Phillips County, when the Helena Crossing Hopewell Indian burial mounds were excavated.

A 19 year-old Coahoma County man has apparently drowned after a 16-foot crew boat overturned in the Mississippi River.

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The seamy Civil War "heritage tourism" dynamic generated among chambers of commerce, local government, and "public historians" recently surfaced again in this story in Helena's Daily World newspaper.