Lonoke County News

Health care reform is much needed, Arkansasa senior senator, Blanche Lincoln, said during a visit to Lonoke County on Thursday.

A Ward man is behind bars tonight after investigators find the makings of a meth lab, drugs and firearms at his home.

Authorities say a 71-year-old Lonoke County street crew employee has been killed in a work accident.

Former City of Lonoke Police Chief Jay Campbell and his wife Kelly Campbell waiting for their trial to resume in this 2007 file photo.

Jefferson and Lonoke counties were struck by tornadoes in storms last week, the National Weather Service announced Monday.

Arkansas farmers are planting winter wheat, though with continued rain, expectations for the crop are iffy, say extension agents and economists for the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture.

The death of a man from injuries suffered while he was an inmate in the Lonoke County Jail is under investigation by state police.

A Ward woman is behind bars on several drug charges. Lonoke County Press Release: On the 26th October 2009, Deputies Paul McIntosh and David Houser went to #205 West 4th Street, Ward, Arkansas to serve an arrest warrant on 19 year old, Michelle Tapscott.

Neighbors in a Lonoke neighborhood who recently reported a string of home break-ins are working with police to make their neighborhood safer.

The Lonoke County Sheriff's Office is investigating a possible attack of an inmate.

A boyfriend-girlfriend team is behind bars accused with breaking into a Lonoke County fish farm.

The Lonoke County Sheriff's Office is looking for the driver of a car that they say tried to run over a deputy responding to a burglar alarm at a church and then fled.

Arkansas Leader reports on arrest of Roger Lemaster of Cabot , the Lonoke County Republican Committee's Man of the Year for 2008, on a charge of raping a minor.

The Jacksonville City Council on Thursday approved the citya s participation in a project to carry Greers Ferry Lake water to communities in Lonoke and White counties and surrounding areas.

Arkansas State Fair officials opened 15 proposals representing 19 different sites in four Central Arkansas counties to relocate the annual autumn amusements and livestock show.

Gary Lee Eby of Austin is behind bars for allegedly abusing a 16-year-old Cabot student.

The Lonoke County Sheriff's Department is investigating the alleged rape of two children, a 6-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy.

Lisa Ann Hirdley disappeared Feb. 5, 2006. About a month later, her body was found dumped below a bridge in Lonoke County.

A rural Lonoke County farming town seems an unlikely place to start an information technology firm.

Two Jacksonville men are jailed in Lonoke County for a Cabot break-in from August 19th.