On Nov. 4, Gus Wilson took a sample of soybeans with 100 percent damage. 'It was the first time I've seen that,' says the Chicot County, Ark., Extension staff chair.

'We had a good soybean crop. The yield was there. We have lost at least 60 percent to 80 percent due to the weather.' The rain-shocked 2009 growing season may prove to be devastating for Chicot County, Ark., where more than 65 percent of the county is farmland.

The Cooperative Extension Service says Ashley, Chicot and Desha counties have been particularly hard hit by the heavy rains in October.

Chicot County prosecuting attorney Thomas Deen is asking that a special prosecutor be appointed in a homicide case against the son of the county's circuit clerk.

Asian soybean rust has been found in extreme southeast Arkansas. Hard on the heels of the latest discovery in Mississippi , the Arkansas find is of low severity and has not necessitated a blanket recommendation for fungicide applications.

Heavy July rains were viewed as a curse or a blessing across the Arkansas Delta, with soybean producers in the northeast citing brutal conditions since spring, while the precipitation was described as 'very timely' in parts of Chicot and Desha counties in the southeast corner.

Heavy July rains were viewed as a curse or a blessing across the Arkansas Delta, with soybean producers in the northeast citing brutal conditions since spring, while the precipitation was described as 'very timely' in parts of Chicot and Desha counties in the southeast corner.

The drinkable-yet-unsightly brown water pouring from faucets in Eudora has residents complaining to state health officials.

Louis Melanson , an Ashley County sheriff's office investigator, leads former Crossett police officer Darrell Webb from the Chicot County Courthouse.

ACROSS THE RIVER, CHICOT COUNTY IS ONE OF 42 ARKANSAS COUNTIES GETTING STATE MONEY FOR COURTHOUSE SECURITY.

A west-central Arkansas trucker was killed in the southeast part of the state early Saturday when his big rig ran off the road and into a lake.

For Bybee as much as for Thompson, reality must be mitigated, banished or defeated.