Van Buren News

Summit Medical Center in Van Buren invites the community to help celebrate the opening of the Wound Healing Center.

Several candidates on Arkansas' primary ballot won races or made it into runoffs despite recent legal or financial problems, including a state legislator who was convicted of fleeing from police.

Members of the Van Buren Police Department participated in the 25th annual Law Enforcement Special Olympics Torch Run on Tuesday.

While 37 House candidates and 13 Senate candidates are running unopposed in Tuesday's party primaries, nine Senate primary races pit current or former state legislators against each other.

Derek G. Mitchell, 19, 832 n. 36th, for No Seat Belt, at 20th Broadway at A 2309 hrs of 05/14/12.A Released on dl.A Dominique J. Jackson, 28, 815 Dean Drive, Jefferson City, Mo., for No Seat Belt at 6th Broadway at 0211 hrs of 05/15/12.A Released on Promise to Comply.A Gary L. Allen, 58, 1438 Washington, for Operating an Uninsured Vehicle at 18th ... (more)

A Franklin County woman pleaded innocent in Crawford County Circuit Court to first-degree murder in the May 1 shooting death of a state Highway Department employee at a rest stop in Van Buren.

Van Buren police arrested a Broken Arrow man suspected of trying to have sex with a 15-year old girl.

The Arkansas River Connection, scheduled for May 15 and 16 at the Fort Smith Convention Center, has been postponed until "the second or third week of October," said Maryl Koeth, the executive director of Van Buren's Advertising and Promotion Commission on Wednesday .

VAN BUREN, Ark. - A state police investigator reports that a Mulberry woman arrested in the shooting death of an Arkansas Highway Department employee at an Interstate 40 rest stop in Van Buren said she was afraid - and that she doesn't remember the shooting.