LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Medical Board has opened an investigation following reports that inmates at a county jail were prescribed an anti-parasitic drug to combat COVID-19 even though it hasn’t been approved to treat the coronavirus.
Board Director Amy Embry on Thursday declined... Read More.
By Ray King
As the national news media was reporting that a number of American service personnel were killed in a terroristic attack at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan Thursday, Fourth District Congressman Bruce Westerman told Deltaplex News that he had attended a confidential briefing... Read More.
By Ray King
A $50,000 bond was set Thursday for a Pine Bluff man who allegedly injured a nurse at Jefferson Regional Tuesday.
Pine Bluff District Judge John Kearney set the bond after ruling prosecutors had probable cause to charge Jonathan Brown, 33, with second-degree battery.
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The first phase of the Monticello Lake Bike Trail is already funded through grants, according to one of the people involved in the project.
The Advance Monticellonian newspaper reported that Dr. Doug Osborne told the Monticello City Council that the trail has $40,000 in unmatched... Read More.
By Ray King
A Humphrey man identified as a suspect in the theft of a catalytic converter from a parked vehicle in White Hall on Aug. 5 will have to post a $25,000 bond to be released from the Adult Detention Center after a court... Read More.
A Jefferson County man was arrested Monday after he allegedly cut hemp valued at $320,000 from the Carpenter Farms in Lincoln County.
According to the Lincoln Ledger newspaper, Chris Moffett, 40, of Jefferson was detained by Grady Mayor Charles Knight until a Lincoln County Deputy... Read More.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The number of Arkansas COVID-19 patients on ventilators reached another high Wednesday as a hospital urged the postponement of a motorcycle rally expected to draw hundreds of thousands of people to the state’s northwest next month.
The Department of Health... Read More.
By Ray King
Over the last 10 years, the Pine Bluff Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) has seen, according to the latest census figures, a 14.37 percent drop in population, going from 77,456 in 2010 to 67,260.
Allison Thompson, the President, and CEO of the Economic Development... Read More.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Inmates at a northwest Arkansas jail have been prescribed ivermectin to combat COVID-19, despite warnings from federal health officials that the antiparasitic drug should not be used to treat the coronavirus.
Washington County’s sheriff confirmed Tuesday night that the jail’s... Read More.
By Ray King
The annual Chamber of Commerce Business Expo which had been set this week was postponed until next year because of an increase in the number of cases of COVID-19 state-wide. The increase was linked to the Delta Variant and the low number... Read More.