West Helena News

WEST HELENA, Ark. - A state senator is denying a claim that he threatened to work against Dustin McDaniel's political future if the attorney general didn't rework a new political map in the senator's favor.

WEST HELENA, Ark. - Gov. Mike Beebe says he wanted to maximize the black vote in an eastern Arkansas Senate district but had to consider how other seats would be affected as a panel redrew legislative boundaries last year.

WEST HELENA, Ark. - A three-judge panel is considering a challenge to a newly redrawn state Senate district in eastern Arkansas.

In The Band's valedictory concert movie The Last Waltz , the director Martin Scorsese asked Levon Helm about his Arkansas roots and the indigenous sounds of the region.

WEST HELENA, Ark. - A massive replica of a Union fort that occupied Helena-West Helena during the Civil War will be dedicated at a ceremony next month.