Sunday morning at about 1:45 AM, Officers of the Pine Bluff Police Department responded to a shooting victim arriving at Jefferson Regional Medical Center. The shooting victim was a 16-year-old juvenile and was pronounced dead at JRMC.
Another victim involved in the same incident arrived... Read More.
UPDATE: The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office has released the following statement:
Shortly after 4:00 p.m. today, while performing a grid search, deputies located what are believed to be human remains as well as items of clothing.
Search and Rescue K9 trained in locating human remains alerted... Read More.
Legal action by Jefferson County against the city of Pine Bluff that began over a squabble over fees to house city prisoners in the county jail was settled this week with Jefferson County being awarded over $400,000 to cover the costs the city incurred... Read More.
Pine Bluff City Council member LaTisha Brunson on Friday was critical of the negative talk that has taken place around the effort to extend the Go Forward Pine Bluff sales tax for another seven years and to approve a permanent three-eights cent tax for... Read More.
As early voting continues at the Jefferson County Courthouse to extend the five-eights cent Go Forward Pine Bluff sales tax for another seven years, Fire and Emergency Services Chief Shauwn Howell on Friday focused on the second tax proposal on the ballot, a three-eights... Read More.
A Pine Bluff man who has drug related charges pending was arrested in the early morning hours Friday after he was linked to two separate incidents in April.
Travis McCoy, 31, was accused of breaking into a business on East Harding Avenue on April 27... Read More.
A $50,000 bond was set Friday for a Pine Bluff man accused of leaving the scene of an accident that resulted in a death.
Pine Bluff District Judge John Kearney set the bond for Thompson Ferrel Cousins, 61, who was taken into custody following the... Read More.
Calton Saffa, Chief Marketing Officer for Saracen Casino Resort, was the keynote speaker at Thursday’s Business Expo 2023 inside of the Pine Bluff Convention Center.
Saffa said that Pine Bluff has “good bones” but needs a new coat of paint to freshen things up. He... Read More.
George Takei signed autograph after autograph Thursday in McGehee.
Some were Star Trek fans who loved Takei as Mr. Sulu. Others, however, see Takei as a peer who experienced a common past with them or their parents and grandparents. That past is the history they... Read More.
UPDATE 8:20 PM MAY 4: Jefferson County Coroner Chad Kelley has identified the victim in Wednesday night’s hit and run homicide as 62-year-old Larry Davis.
Davis was pronounced deceased at the scene by Deputy Coroner Eric Belcher.
61-year-old Thompson Ferrel Cousin of Pine Bluff has been... Read More.