Johnson County News

Prosecutors in Johnson County are still developing charges for a man arrested in the stabbing death of a 6-year-old girl.

What started off as a noise complaint has now turned in to a federal police brutality lawsuit between a Clarksville woman and the city's police department.

The United Way Tournament provides community members with an opportunity to enjoy a fun day while supporting the agency by playing golf, enjoying beverages on the course, lunch and a silent auction following the tournament.

The very close Laotian family all live together out in Johnson County and say this relative, who just turned 22, never showed any indication he was capable of this crime.

Commuters in Crawford County have started seeing more orange cones and it does not look like it will change anytime soon.

A six-year-old girl who was stabbed last week in her Hartman home by a 22-year-old male relative has died from her wounds, police said Thursday.

A man has been injured in an explosion at a black powder business in Johnson County.

An explosion at a private ammunition plant in Clarksville injured one person, according to Johnson County dispatchers and officials with the fire department.

A home invasion early Friday morning left a six-year-old girl in critical condition after a man, identified by police as a "family relative," attacked the girl and two other family members with a large knife and a pair of scissors.

A Johnson County sheriff who was killed in the line of duty in 1902 will be among fallen law enforcement officers honored at a vigil in Washington, D.C. John Hall Powers has been sheriff since 1890 when he was fatally shot when trying to stop a Clarksville bank robbery.

A Clarksville man was arrested early Friday morning after he allegedly attacked three family members, including a six-year-old girl, with a pair of scissors.

Unemployment rates fell across the Arkansas River Valley in March, but are still higher than the same time last year.

Two men are being held in lieu of $1 million commercial bonds in connection with a May 3 bomb threat at the Johnson County Courthouse.

Another Arkansas River Valley public facility was threatened with a bomb threat this week.

The Climate Prediction Center on Thursday projected a wetter summer for southwest Arkansas, an area where moderate drought continued clinging stubbornly.