Desha County News

'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 state Supreme Court today denied a request to reconsider its decision to overturn the capital murder and kidnapping convictions of a Desha County man in the slaying of a Pine Bluff teenager.

Well, it wasn't going to be the biggest scoop of the year but it was a nice little item until Gov.

LITTLE ROCK - Gov. Mike Beebe said Monday that he hopes that probes will determine whether public officials who are collecting pensions without ever leaving office are abusing the state's retirement system.

Work is being done in bits and pieces for two new cross-country interstate highways that will run through Arkansas.

President Obama has been too slow in appointing leaders of the Delta Regional Authority, raising questions about his interest in helping the region, advocates for economic development in the Delta said Thursday.

Rural communities in Arkansas will receive $911,000 in federal stimulus funds to buy police cars, fire trucks and other safety equipment.

Hospitals in and around Arkansas that have requested to be a part of the state's new trauma system.

A split Arkansas Supreme Court today voted 5-2 to reverse the capital murder conviction and life sentence of Kenneth Ray Osburn , who was convicted of the August 2006 kidnaping and slaying of 17-year-old Casey Crowder of Pine Bluff.

A year and a half after a jury sentenced him to life in prison , attorneys for Kenneth Osburn, 48, want his conviction thrown out.

Three Arkansas police departments are among only 27 nationwide that are ineligible for federal economic stimulus grants from the U.S. Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services program.

A DESHA COUNTY, ARKANSAS TOWN WILL TAKE AN ECONOMIC HIT WHEN AUTOMOTIVE SUPPLIER FEDERAL MOGUL CLOSES ITS PLANT.