WALNUT RIDGE, Ark. – An estimated 100 graduates will receive their diplomas Saturday, May 13, as Williams Baptist College holds its 2017 commencement exercises. The graduation ceremony begins at 10 a.m. in WBC’s Southerland-Mabee Center. Senator John Boozman will deliver the commencement address. Boozman is Arkansas’s senior U.S. Senator and the [read more…]
POCAHONTAS, Ark. – A program is giving money to displaced families, renters or owners in flooded areas of Arkansas. The Arkansas Board of Realtors supports a program to give money to displaced families, renters or owners, called Hearts and Homes of Arkansas, Inc. It is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that was [read more…]
PORTIA, Ark. – U.S. 63 at Portia will shut down by 11 a.m. due to flooding. This is according to an alert being sent out to authorities and responders. We are actively following news at Facebook.com/NEAReport
POCAHONTAS, Ark. – A giant business in Randolph County has made an extraordinary decision to pay employees for almost an entire week despite the plant being shut down. All full-time Peco employees will be paid for the hours worked on Monday, May 1, plus 32 hours, provided they come back as an [read more…]
POCAHONTAS, Ark. – With construction on a new Black River Bridge still underway and only one bridge/two lanes left, the community would be crippled if something happened to the only bridge left. This unthinkable scenario is a actual worry for Pocahontas Mayor Kary Story. Currently, traffic is down to one [read more…]
WALNUT RIDGE, Ark. – Rising flood waters will not impact the Williams Baptist College campus, and the college will continue to operate on its standard schedule, according to WBC officials. As with previous Black River floods, the elevation of the Williams campus keeps it well above the forecasted level of [read more…]
JONESBORO – Once all figures were counted, Arkansas State University students participating in the “Up ’til Dawn” fundraising weekend surpassed their goal and raised $75,185 for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis. This landed A-State as the ninth-best UTD fundraising program in the nation, according to Jordan Booth, the [read more…]
JONESBORO, Ark. – An officer on patrol arrested a man he said had a marijuana blunt and a crack pipe on his person. At about 2:55 a.m. Friday, Officer Dalton Shannon was on patrol at Bridge and Hoover and nearby. He turned onto Hoover and saw a female quickly walk [read more…]
JONESBORO, Ark. – A crowd of “several hundred” in the downtown Jonesboro area was dispersed early Saturday by Jonesboro authorities but not before one man was arrested for allegedly refusing to follow the officer’s orders. At 2:20 a.m. Saturday, April 29, Jonesboro Police Department officers at the scene of Main [read more…]
JONESBORO, Ark. – A woman found herself in trouble with police after an investigator driving by her recognized her for having a suspended license. At about 8:30 p.m. on Friday night, Investigator Bryan Bailey with Jonesboro Police Department noticed a blue 2012 Ford F-150 XLT driven by Latisha Hall, 30, [read more…]
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