Murfreesboro News

The administrator and chief operating officer of 32-bed Pike County Memorial Hospital, Murfreesboro, Ark., have been arrested on felony charges for allegedly writing bad checks to a physician.

As we get into the holiday season, folks in one Arkansas town are wishing for their hospital to reopen.

MURFREESBORO, Ark. a ' Pike County Hospital in Murfreesboro says it has voluntarily suspended operations until Jan.

MURFREESBORO, Ark. The administrator and chief operating officer of the Pike County Hospital have been arrested on felony hot check charges for allegedly writing bad checks to a physician.

A former Murfreesboro police officer has been found mentally competent to stand trial for murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend.

Superintendent Curtis Turner Jr. of the Murfreesboro School District addresses the Arkansas Board of Education on Monday while Hartford School District Superintendent D. Chris Rink watches.

Q: I've noticed some construction at the old Tomato Tomato location near the Public Square.

If 101 carats amounts to the size of a ping pong ball, that means that the 507 carat diamond is the size of five ping-pong balls.

If you didn't have a ticket to the game, right next door you didn't need to pay to get in.

We've all been there: a week until payday, the rent is due, and you're rummaging in your parents' attic to find Dad's Mickey Mantle rookie card.

Murfreesboro Police are not expecting charges to be filed in an early Wednesday shooting that left a Vietnam veteran dead at his North Maple Street residence.

State prison officials say they plan to modify the trailer used to carry search dogs in order to provide more ventilation.

The brother of a man shot to death at a Maple Street home said his brother was "a good man that was ultimately changed by the events of Vietnam." Shooting victim Dana Charles "Chuck" Jankovsky was awarded a Bronze Star Dec.

State prison officials say they plan to modify the trailer used to carry search dogs in order to provide more ventilation.

Two prisoners a ' one a murder suspect a ' who escaped early Wednesday from the Pike County jail in Murfreesboro were captured Thursday evening less than 24 miles from the jail after a motorist spotted one of them behaving suspiciously along a highway, an Arkansas State Police spokesman said.

Law enforcement authorities in south Arkansas captured two jail escapees within minutes of each other Thursday night.

Drury University students have left their mark on the "Extreme Makeover Home Edition" twice.

After a record-low year for wildfires in 2008 and nearly no such fires during May this year, the number of wildfires in Arkansas is running about average through the first half of 2009.

'Mama, this surely is a dream.' Ah, but it's all too real: Continuing the surreal parade of '90s acts passing through the Nashville area this month , the 'Sex and Candy' whiffers are hitting up 'Boro rock haven 527 Mainstreet.