Dispatch Desk: Friday, July 21
Argument over cooked dinner results in fight | Woman blackmailed by former lover over money owed | Local jail bookings
Day: July 21, 2023
Arkadelphia ISO rating improves, puts city in top 25% nationwide
AFD’s Class 3 ISO rating puts Arkadelphia in the top 25% of fire departments nationwide
Retired teacher sentenced to 20 years for sex with teenage student
A Gurdon man will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars for sexual conduct with a teenage boy
Crowell: Arkansas sales tax holiday Aug. 5-6
Every year the sales tax holiday is the first weekend in August
Presence of blight pathogen confirmed in Arkansas pine trees
Loblolly pine is the most economically significant tree species in the state’s approximately $6 billion forest economy
National Park College gets Roy and Christine Sturgis grant
The grant will be used to purchase a Puritan Bennett 980 Ventilator to train students in NPC’s Respiratory Care program
History Minute: Yarnell’s Ice Cream Company, an Arkansas tradition
In Arkansas, the Yarnell’s Ice Cream Company has been feeding the ice cream tradition for eight decades.