Drew County News

More Hampton residents are battling mother nature. Just a few days after high winds left damage at the high school there, flash flooding has presented new weather-related problems.

A vacant two-story building has collapsed in Monticello, but no injuries have been reported.

A Drew County man has been charged with felony aggravated cruelty to animals in the beating death of a horse.

Authorities arrested a Drew County man Wednesday morning and accused him of beating a small pony to death with a wooden baseball bat in a wooded area southeast of Monticello.

A Drew County man has been charged with felony aggravated cruelty to animals in the beating death of a horse.

Taking a cue from Saline County, a southeast Arkansas judge has banned credit bonding in his courtroom, a practice where defendants get out of jail on the cheap with the help of bail bondsmen.

Drew County authorities are looking for a man in connection with the shooting death of his brother.

Warren - The Pink Tomato Festival is in full swing in Warren this week, but the pink tomato was being shipped out of southeast Arkansas long before the festival.

There has to be a story behind a place where the first county seat was a town called Rough and Ready.

Homemade permanent trash receptacles sitting on the side of Arkansas roads are the target of an eradication campaign by state highway officials, who say the bins constitute a significant source of roadside litter.

City Arrests: * Clayton L. Handley, 28, of 225 Hargett, was arrested Friday on a Drew County warrant for failure to appear on a charge of revocation for possession of a firearm by a certain person, second-degree forgery, theft of property, and failure to pay time pay.

The hardest-hit areas were in south Stuttgart near an area struck by a May 10, 2008, twister, and in a Monticello neighborhood east of downtown.

More on a story we first told you about Sunday. Little Rock Public Works crews were busy digging out dirt and water from a huge sinkhole outside a home on Chester .

Little Rock Police have identified the suspect arrested in North Little Rock Wednesday afternoon for a morning bank robbery.

The office of emergency management says the damage there is widespread.Twenty homes were damaged, but officials say it could have been much worse.

In Drew County an EFI tornado struck, destroying several structures early Wednesday morning.

Officials say downed trees have damaged structures in Monticello and Stuttgart. Officials in Drew County were going house-to-house Wednesday morning in and around Monticello where numerous trees were blown onto trailers and frame homes.