Ouachita County News

The Arkansas Parole Board has recommended clemency for a 76-year-old woman sentenced to life in prison for first-degree murder.

LITTLE ROCK - Central Arkansas is on track to set a new high for annual rainfall, with two months of the year remaining and the total for 2009 already less than 8 inches shy of the current record of 75.54 inches in 1882.

Storms that passed through Arkansas have left Arkansans with heavy wind and flood damage.

The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado was reported at East Camden in Ouachita County this afternoon, shortly before 3:45. Damage reports include downed trees and that Highway 278/274 is impassable.

Much of East Camden is still in the dark. The National Weather Service confirmed Friday, it was an E-F2 tornado that ripped through Ouachita County, uprooting trees and damaging homes.

Camden - Authorities say the Arkansas Fire Academy in East Camden was heavily damaged as severe storms and tornadoes passed through Ouachita County Thursday afternoon.

A former Arkansas police officer who took a job teaching police officers in Iraq - and died there - is to be honored in his hometown of Camden.

Heavy rains across south Arkansas forced closure of several highways and roads covered by high water Tuesday, officials said.

The state Supreme Court today reinstated the felony manslaughter convictions of a former prosecutor who killed an elderly couple in a head-on car crash in Perry County.

Officials say a worker at a paper recycling facility in Camden was crushed to death in a paper compactor.

The heavy rain in South Arkansas on Thursday created some hazardous conditions late in the day and during the overnight hours.

Ouachita County jurors were unable to reach a verdict Friday in the case of 20-year-old Jose Haynie, who is charged with killing 20-year-old Tremaine Torrence in September 2008 at the Retreat Club in Camden.

A groundbreaking ceremony in Camden this morning officially welcomed a new company to the Ouachita County town.

An explosion that could be heard for miles sent six defense plant workers in south Arkansas to a hospital Monday morning, officials said.

Authorities say at least one person was taken to the hospital after a blast at an east Camden plant.

Damage is reported today in at least 10 Arkansas counties from storms that moved through last night and this morning.

Storms that moved through Arkansas left trees and power lines down in northwest Arkansas and in Ouachita County in the far south of the state.

Some members of Arkansas' congressional delegation are sharing good news for three cities in the state.

Photo by Jamal Brown John Baber, right, Trish Lynn, center, and Frank Bray, seated, discuss a design Thursday afternoon of the passing lanes that will be constructed on U.S. 79 north of McNeil.

Major flooding in one part of south Arkansas leads to a disaster declaration Tuesday.