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Kenneth Heard

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Widow is 4th arrest in killing of spouse

posted: 05/24/2012 3:57 a.m. Discuss

A Jonesboro woman who called police after finding her fatally shot husband in their home on Aug. 24, 2011, was arrested in his slaying Wednesday.

1 pilot dies in plane collision

posted: 05/24/2012 3:47 a.m. Discuss

A Bono agricultural pilot was killed and a second man injured Wednesday when their planes collided over a field in Greene County, authorities said.

PB voters OK 0.4-mill tax rise

posted: 05/23/2012 3:59 a.m. Gallery Discuss

Two insolvent pension programs for Pine Bluff ’s police and fire departments appear to have been saved as voters favored two millage increase proposals Tuesday evening.

Boyd, Tosh get nods in sheriff primaries

posted: 05/23/2012 3:58 a.m. Gallery Discuss

A Craighead County chief deputy defeated two Democratic challengers in a primary Tuesday and avoided a runoff election, just as his boss did 14 years ago.

In a switch, sheriff’s race has 2 party primaries

posted: 05/19/2012 5:11 a.m. Discuss

For the first time in six elections, the Craighead County sheriff’s race does not feature an incumbent.

Gun goes off, killing ex-mayor of Helena

posted: 05/11/2012 2:13 a.m. Discuss

Former Helena Mayor Robert Miller, a retired physician, died Thursday of an accidental gunshot wound, authorities said.

It’s guilty again in 4 ’98 killings

posted: 05/10/2012 5:41 a.m. Discuss

In his retrial Wednesday, Billy Green was convicted for a second time on four counts of capital murder and one count of kidnapping in the 1998 slayings of a Dalton family.

After 2 hours, no verdict, Green jury adjourns for day

posted: 05/09/2012 5:34 a.m. Discuss

Randolph County Circuit Court jurors deliberated for two hours Tuesday in the capital murder retrial of Billy Green before the judge sent them home without reaching a verdict.

Son told of killings, dad testifies

posted: 05/08/2012 4:15 a.m. Discuss

Tears welled in Charles “Chad” Green’s eyes on Aug. 1, 1998, when he told his father that he killed a Randolph County family of four, Billy Green testified Monday at his capital murder retrial.

Kin: Told by murder suspect to lie

posted: 05/05/2012 3:14 a.m. Discuss

Shortly after police questioned Billy Green’s wife about the July 29, 1998, slayings of a Randolph County family of four, he demanded that his wife and children lie about his and his son’s whereabouts that night, family members testified in Green’s capitalmurder retrial Friday.

Witness: Murder victim, 8, raped

posted: 05/04/2012 3:26 a.m. Comments 4

Eight year-old Felicia Elliott was kept inside a trash can and repeatedly raped for two days before Billy Green submerged her in a creek near his Warm Springs home and then cut her throat in 1998, a prisoner testified during Green’s capital-murder retrial in Randolph County Circuit Court on Thursday.

Inquiry gets 3 suspended by district in Arkadelphia

posted: 05/04/2012 3:07 a.m. Discuss

The Arkadelphia School District has suspended three employees in the wake of a Department of Human Services investigation, Superintendent Donnie Whitten said this week.

Slayings’ brutality in ’98 case limned on retrial’s 1st day

posted: 05/03/2012 4:57 a.m. Discuss

Billy Green fatally shot, bludgeoned and stabbed a Randolph County family of four in 1998, Prosecuting Attorney Henry Boyce said during the opening statements of Green’s retrial Wednesday, calling it the worst crime ever committed in the county.

State not seeking death in 1998 killings

posted: 05/02/2012 5:03 a.m. Discuss

The prosecutor who will retry a Randolph County man charged with four counts of capital murder said Monday that he will not seek the death penalty.

Prosecutor seeking execution in retrial

posted: 04/30/2012 3:53 a.m. Discuss

The retrial of a Randolph County man whose capital murder convictions were overturned by the state Supreme Court in 2008 begins today in Randolph County Circuit Court.

Walnut Ridge plans guitar-shaped plaza

posted: 04/29/2012 4:55 a.m. Discuss

Rockabilly musician Sonny Burgess once talked singer Johnny Cash out of quitting more than 50 years ago, just before Cash was to take the stage in a Jackson County club.

MISSION OF MERCY: Volunteers pluck teeth, ease pain at packed clinic

posted: 04/28/2012 3:11 a.m. Discuss

Cecil Daniels spent Thursday night camped outside the Arkansas State University Convocation Center to have the few teeth he had left pulled Friday and get fitted for dentures because his wife told him to do so.

Historic ASU house gets reprieve, but with strings

posted: 04/20/2012 3:26 a.m. Discuss

Arkansas State University administrators halted plans to demolish in May the campus home of ASU’s first president, giving a group that wants to save it a chance to raise restoration funds.

Surveyors verify tornado in Arkansas

posted: 04/17/2012 4:12 a.m. Discuss

The National Weather Service confirmed Monday that a tornado touched down in southeast Van Buren County on Sunday evening and left a 2-mile-long path of toppled trees and downed power lines.

Indiana prisoner charged in 2000 Forrest City killing

posted: 04/12/2012 4:57 a.m. Video | Discuss

Twelve years after a 19-year-old waitress was raped, tortured and killed, Forrest City police said Wednesday that authorities have solved the crime.

Fans of ASU home see it doomed

posted: 04/07/2012 2:47 a.m. Discuss

Resigned that an effort to save a historic home on the Arkansas State University campus is likely too late, ASU faculty senate members asked a committee Friday to investigate whether university planners failed to properly notify authorities of their demolition plans.

Video ban on Calico Rock city council agenda

posted: 04/03/2012 4:16 a.m. Discuss

The Calico Rock City Council will review its policy that bans video recording devices next Monday after the Arkansas attorney general’s office said the state’s Freedom of Information Act allows the cameras.

4 cities in state report warmest March ever

posted: 04/03/2012 4:02 a.m. Discuss

Harrison, Jonesboro, Little Rock and North Little Rock recorded their hottest March ever as temperatures averaged 10 degrees or more above normal, the National Weather Service said Monday.

Spa City trail marks rich hardball history

posted: 04/01/2012 3:50 a.m. Discuss

Babe Ruth hit a mammoth home run into Hot Springs’ Arkansas Alligator Farm in the spring of 1918 that helped convince his manager that Ruth was better suited as a batter than a pitcher.

Farmers address possible new bill

posted: 03/31/2012 3:12 a.m. Discuss

Farmers from six states asked a congressional agriculture panel Friday to consider the diversity of crops in the South when preparing a draft of a new farm bill.

Searchers find body of 4-year-old in river

posted: 03/29/2012 4:23 a.m. Video | Gallery Discuss

A search team using canoes found the body of a 4-year-old boy in the South Fork River on Wednesday morning after an extensive search that began Saturday, when authorities now believe the child fell into the rapid waters.

River now focus in hunt for boy, 4; 2 shirts found

posted: 03/28/2012 4:07 a.m. Discuss

The sheriff leading the hunt for a 4-year-old boy last seen Saturday by the South Fork River near Cherokee Village called off ground searches Tuesday evening and will now focus strictly on the river.

Jonesboro fire totals 50-year-old building

posted: 03/28/2012 3:54 a.m. Discuss

A fire that began in the roof of a Jonesboro funeral home destroyed the 50-year-old building, Fire Chief Kevin Miller said Tuesday.

Plan to raze ’36 home stirs passions at ASU

posted: 03/25/2012 6:23 a.m. Discuss

When Scott Darwin began teaching at Arkansas State University in 1969, he lived next door to the stately two-story house on Aggie Road that was once the home of ASU’s first president.

Rising water sends 20 fleeing

posted: 03/22/2012 5:04 a.m. Discuss

At least 20 people fled their homes Wednesday in Faulkner County as creeks overflowed from rain that has deluged much of the state since Monday evening.

Rain to linger in state a few days

posted: 03/21/2012 4:43 a.m. Discuss

A weather system initially expected to drop up to 8 inches of rain in parts of the state instead brought less rain but produced some damaging winds.

Forest campsites closed ahead of rain

posted: 03/20/2012 4:46 a.m. Discuss

The National Forest Service has closed campsites in the Ouachita and Ozark-St. Francis National Forests and the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is releasing water from the Craig D. Campbell Lake Conway Reservoir in anticipation of heavy rains this week.

Blytheville passes 1% sales tax to pay off IRS debt

posted: 03/14/2012 4:15 a.m. Discuss

Hours before the polls closed Tuesday, Blytheville city officials worked on an alternative plan in case voters turned down a proposed tax increase that would help erase a $3.7 million Internal Revenue Service debt.

Tax increase OK’d for Nettleton schools

posted: 03/14/2012 4:11 a.m. Discuss

Nettleton School District patrons approved a 3.95-mill school tax increase Tuesday that will help pay for a new intermediate school and additional classrooms.

Batesville passes tax for recreation projects

posted: 03/14/2012 4:09 a.m. Comment 1

Batesville voters favored two half-percent sales-tax issues Tuesday that will fund recreational projects for the Independence County city of 10,248.

Son set to testify in father’s retrial

posted: 03/13/2012 4:46 a.m. Discuss

After maintaining for six years that he would not testify during his father’s retrial on a capital murder charge, Charles “Chad” Green said Monday that he would take the stand next month.

Batesville to vote on sales-tax rise

posted: 03/12/2012 5:04 a.m. Discuss

Batesville officials have retooled a sales-tax-increase proposal that voters turned down two years ago in hopes of developing recreational facilities and creating economic opportunities for the Independence County town.

Study logs twisters in state since 1950

posted: 03/11/2012 5:27 a.m. Discuss

While tornadoes seemed to follow a track along the Interstate 30 and U.S. 167/67 corridor for years, devastating storms touched down in every Arkansas county between 1950 and 2011, a National Weather Service survey of Arkansas twisters shows.

3.95-mill rise sought for Nettleton district

posted: 03/11/2012 5:25 a.m. Discuss

The Nettleton School District is asking for a 3.95-mill increase Tuesday to help pay for construction in anticipation of a surge in enrollment over the next 10 years.

Blytheville starts early in vote on tax to pay IRS

posted: 03/11/2012 5:24 a.m. Discuss

More than 600 people cast early votes by Friday evening in Blytheville’s special election for a 1 percent sales tax targeted at helping pay the city’s debt with the Internal Revenue Service.

Hudson excited to lead at ASU

posted: 03/03/2012 3:44 a.m. Discuss

Even though Tim Hudson saw Jonesboro only minimally while interviewing with Arkansas State University last month, he said taking the helm as the ASU-Jonesboro chancellor in May will be “like coming home.” Hudson, 57, the vice chancellor for the Texas Tech University System in Lubbock, was named ASU’s second chancellor Friday.

ASU looks to Texas for its next chancellor

posted: 03/02/2012 3:36 a.m. Discuss

Tim Hudson, the vice chancellor of the Texas Tech University System, will be named the Arkansas State University chancellor today, sources with direct knowledge of the selection said Thursday.

Officer suspended in chief’s drug case

posted: 02/29/2012 6:16 a.m. Discuss

A police detective who told an investigator that he gave then-Trumann Police Chief Tony Rusher prescription medication from the department’s evidence room has been suspended, Mayor Sheila Walters said Tuesday.

Trumann police chief quits after probe

posted: 02/28/2012 4:41 a.m. Comment 1

Trumann Police Chief Tony Rusher resigned Monday after a private investigation commissioned by the city revealed that he took prescription medication from the department’s evidence room, Mayor Sheila Walters said.

3 postal centers in state to close

posted: 02/24/2012 5:02 a.m. Comment 1

The U.S. Postal Service approved plans Thursday to close mail distribution centers in Harrison, Hot Springs and Jonesboro and move those centers’ operations elsewhere as part of continuing efforts to save billions of dollars nationwide.

ASU to choose new chancellor from 3 finalists

posted: 02/22/2012 5:36 a.m. Discuss

Hours after the last of three candidates for the Arkansas State University-Jonesboro chancellor’s position interviewed with faculty and staff Tuesday, ASU System President Charles Welch said he hoped to make a selection by the middle of next week.

Tax vote pushed as city’s debt aid

posted: 02/19/2012 5:57 a.m. Discuss

Reeling from Internal Revenue Service liens placed on city-owned property for tax debts and a prosecutor’s request for a criminal investigation into the matter, Blytheville city leaders are urging residents to pass a sales tax in next month’s election to help pay the debt.

Storm a wintry smorgasbord

posted: 02/14/2012 4:34 a.m. Video | Gallery Discuss

After weeks of unseasonably high temperatures, Arkansans got a brief taste of nearly every kind of winter weather possible Monday.

Crumbling roads lead Salesville to look at tax

posted: 02/12/2012 5:04 a.m. Discuss

Residents of Salesville will vote Tuesday on adopting the Baxter County town’s first sales tax, with proceeds to help pay for road repairs.

La Nina has state basking this winter

posted: 02/09/2012 5:03 a.m. Discuss

Daffodils are beginning to bloom, and winged pests have already been buzzing in the state thanks to an unseasonably warm winter.

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